Method and system for performing predictive compositions for composed information handling systems using telemetry data

ABSTRACT

Techniques described herein relate to a method for managing composed information handling systems. The method includes obtaining, by a system control processor manager, a composition request for a composed information handling system to perform a workflow; in response to obtaining the composition request: identifying a composed system blueprint associated with the workflow; making a first determination that there are first predictive analytics associated with the composed system blueprint; in response to the first determination: identifying a composed infrastructure associated with the composed system blueprint capable of performing the workflow based on telemetry data and the first predictive analytics; instantiating a composed information handling system using the composed infrastructure to service the composition request; and setting up telemetry services for the composed information handling system using an at least one control resource set.

BACKGROUND

Computing devices may provide services. To provide the services, thecomputing devices may include hardware components and softwarecomponents. The services provided by the computing devices may belimited by these components. The hardware components and softwarecomponents may be allocated to provide the services. The state of theallocations may be important for users and/or the protection of thecomputing devices. To analyze the state of the allocations, telemetrydata associated with the hardware and software components may begenerated. The telemetry data may further be used to efficiently performthe allocations.

SUMMARY

In general, certain embodiments described herein relate to a method formanaging composed information handling systems. The method may includeobtaining, by a system control processor manager, a composition requestfor a composed information handling system to perform a workflow; inresponse to obtaining the composition request: identifying a composedsystem blueprint associated with the workflow; making a firstdetermination that there are first predictive analytics associated withthe composed system blueprint; in response to the first determination:identifying a composed infrastructure associated with the composedsystem blueprint capable of performing the workflow based on telemetrydata and the first predictive analytics; instantiating a composedinformation handling system using the composed infrastructure to servicethe composition request; and setting up telemetry services for thecomposed information handling system using an at least one controlresource set.

In general, certain embodiments described herein relate to a system formanaging composed information handling systems. The system includes aplurality of information handling systems which include a plurality ofsystem control processors. The system also includes a system controlprocessor manager, which includes a processor and memory, and isprogrammed to obtain a composition request for a composed informationhandling system to perform a workflow; in response to obtaining thecomposition request: identify a composed system blueprint associatedwith the workflow; make a first determination that there are firstpredictive analytics associated with the composed system blueprint; inresponse to the first determination: identify a composed infrastructureassociated with the composed system blueprint capable of performing theworkflow based on telemetry data and the first predictive analytics;instantiate a composed information handling system using the composedinfrastructure to service the composition request; and set up telemetryservices for the composed information handling system using an at leastone control resource set.

In general, certain embodiments described herein relate to anon-transitory computer readable medium that includes computer readableprogram code, which when executed by a computer processor enables thecomputer processor to perform a method for managing composed informationhandling systems. The method may include obtaining, by a system controlprocessor manager, a composition request for a composed informationhandling system to perform a workflow; in response to obtaining thecomposition request: identifying a composed system blueprint associatedwith the workflow; making a first determination that there are firstpredictive analytics associated with the composed system blueprint; inresponse to the first determination: identifying a composedinfrastructure associated with the composed system blueprint capable ofperforming the workflow based on telemetry data and the first predictiveanalytics; instantiating a composed information handling system usingthe composed infrastructure to service the composition request; andsetting up telemetry services for the composed information handlingsystem using an at least one control resource set.

Other aspects of the embodiments disclosed herein will be apparent fromthe following description and the appended claims.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

Certain embodiments of the invention will be described with reference tothe accompanying drawings. However, the accompanying drawings illustrateonly certain aspects or implementations of the invention by way ofexample and are not meant to limit the scope of the claims.

FIG. 1.1 shows a diagram of a system in accordance with one or moreembodiments of the invention.

FIG. 1.2 shows a diagram of an information handling system in accordancewith one or more embodiments of the invention.

FIG. 2 shows a diagram of local hardware resources in accordance withone or more embodiments of the invention.

FIG. 3 shows a diagram of a system control processor in accordance withone or more embodiments of the invention.

FIG. 4 shows a diagram of a system control processor manager inaccordance with one or more embodiments of the invention.

FIG. 5.1 shows a flowchart of a method for instantiating a composedinformation handling system in accordance with one or more embodimentsof the invention.

FIG. 5.2 shows a flowchart of a method for setting up telemetry servicesin accordance with one or more embodiments of the invention.

FIG. 5.3 shows a flowchart of a method for performing telemetry servicesin accordance with one or more embodiments of the invention.

FIGS. 6.1 - 6.3 show diagrams of the operation of an example system overtime in accordance with one or more embodiments of the invention.

FIG. 7 shows a diagram of a computing device in accordance with one ormore embodiments of the invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Specific embodiments will now be described with reference to theaccompanying figures. In the following description, numerous details areset forth as examples of the invention. It will be understood by thoseskilled in the art that one or more embodiments of the present inventionmay be practiced without these specific details and that numerousvariations or modifications may be possible without departing from thescope of the invention. Certain details known to those of ordinary skillin the art are omitted to avoid obscuring the description.

In the following description of the figures, any component describedwith regard to a figure, in various embodiments of the invention, may beequivalent to one or more like-named components described with regard toany other figure. For brevity, descriptions of these components will notbe repeated with regard to each figure. Thus, each and every embodimentof the components of each figure is incorporated by reference andassumed to be optionally present within every other figure having one ormore like-named components. Additionally, in accordance with variousembodiments of the invention, any description of the components of afigure is to be interpreted as an optional embodiment, which may beimplemented in addition to, in conjunction with, or in place of theembodiments described with regard to a corresponding like-namedcomponent in any other figure.

Throughout this application, elements of figures may be labeled as A toN. As used herein, the aforementioned labeling means that the elementmay include any number of items and does not require that the elementinclude the same number of elements as any other item labeled as A to N.For example, a data structure may include a first element labeled as Aand a second element labeled as N. This labeling convention means thatthe data structure may include any number of the elements. A second datastructure, also labeled as A to N, may also include any number ofelements. The number of elements of the first data structure and thenumber of elements of the second data structure may be the same ordifferent.

In general embodiments of the invention relate to methods, systems, andnon-transitory computer readable mediums for performing telemetryservices for composed information handling systems.

In one or more embodiments of the invention, composed informationhandling system are composed to perform computer implemented services. Acomposed information handling system may be a device (the components ofwhich may be distributed across one or more information handlingsystems) that has exclusive use over a quantity of computing resources.Computing resources from multiple information handling systems may beallocated to a composed information handling system thereby enabling acomposed information handling system to utilize computing resources fromany number of information handling system for performance ofcorresponding computer implemented services.

To allocate computing resources, the system may include a system controlprocessor manager. The system control processor manager may obtaincomposition requests. The composition requests may indicate a desiredoutcome such as, for example, execution of one or more applications,providing of one or more services, etc. The system control processormanager may translate the composition requests into correspondingquantities of computing resources necessary to be allocated to satisfythe intent of the composition requests.

The users of composed information handling systems may desire toevaluate the health and performance of the computing resources ofcomposed information handling systems. Telemetry data may be generatedfor composed information handling systems satisfy the aforementioneddesire to evaluate the health and performance of the computing resourcesof composed information handling systems. Due to the large scale ofcomposed information handling systems, a massive quantity of telemetrydata may be generated for a single composition handling system. Intraditional systems, all of the telemetry data may be provided to auser, and the user may have to manually parse the telemetry data toidentify a portion of the telemetry data that the user desires toevaluate. This may take a significant amount of the user’s time.Additionally, telemetry data may be leveraged to optimize thecomposition of composed information handling systems. Furthermore, itmay be difficult to maintain the physical to logical component mappingsincluded in the composed information handling system and the telemetrydata associated with the aforementioned mappings. Moreover, there may berisks of data security breaches if the unauthorized users gained accessto the telemetry data.

To address, at least in part, the aforementioned issues, embodiments ofthe invention relate to providing telemetry services for composedinformation handling systems. Specifically, embodiments of the inventionmay enable users associated with a group to submit composition requestsassociated with telemetry services, provide a system control processormanager that may compose an compose information handling system to withtelemetry service using telemetry data and predictive analytics tooptimize the composition of composed information handling system. As aresult, a user of the composed information handling system may submit atelemetry request associated with predictive analytics to the systemcontrol processor manager. The system control processor manager mayaggregate telemetry data from data collectors and/or system controlprocessors of the composed information handling system to generatepredictive analytics to satisfy the telemetry intent. Consequently, thetelemetry data and the predictive analytics may be used to updatecomposed system blueprints and improve the composition of futurecomposed information handling systems as well as dynamically re-composecomposed information handling systems based on future predicted issuesusing the predictive analytics.

Thus, embodiments of the invention may address the problem of theinefficient use of composed information handling systems to performtelemetry services. The composed information handling systems mayleverage telemetry data maps to generate, track and maintain telemetrydata that may be used to generate predictive analytics. Therefore, thetelemetry data and the predictive analytics may enable the systemcontrol processor manager to optimize the composition of composedinformation handling systems based on past states, current states,and/or futures states of similar composed information handling systems

FIG. 1.1 shows a system in accordance with one or more embodiments ofthe invention. The system may include any number of information handlingsystems (60). The information handling systems (60) may provide computerimplemented services. The computer implemented services may include, forexample, database services, data storage services, electroniccommunications services, data protection services, and/or other types ofservices that may be implemented using information handling systems.

The information handling system of the system of FIG. 1.1 may operateindependently and/or cooperatively to provide the computer implementedservices. For example, a single information handling system (e.g., 60)may provide a computer implemented service on its own (i.e.,independently) while multiple other information handling systems (e.g.,62, 64) may provide a second computer implemented service cooperatively(e.g., each of the multiple other information handling systems mayprovide similar and or different services that form the cooperativelyprovided service).

To provide computer implemented services, the information handlingsystems (60) may utilize computing resources provided by hardwaredevices. The computing resources may include, for example, processingresources, storage resources, memory resources, graphics processingresources, communications resources, and/or other types of resourcesprovided by the hardware devices. Various hardware devices may providethese computing resources.

As discussed above, embodiments of the invention relate to system,methods, and devices for managing the hardware resources of theinformation handling systems (60) and/or other resources (e.g., externalresources (30)) to perform telemetry services for composed informationhandling systems and the information handling systems (60). The hardwareresources of the information handling systems (60) may be managed byinstantiating one or more composed information handling systems usingthe hardware resources of the information handling systems (60),external resources (30), and/or other types of hardware devicesoperatively connected to the information handling systems (60). Duringthe instantiation of the composed information handling systems, one ormore devices, including a system control processor and data collectors,may be automatically setup to perform telemetry services for thecomposed information handling systems. The telemetry services may beused to collect telemetry data and provide the telemetry data to users.

In one or more embodiments of the invention, the system includes asystem control processor manager (50). The system control processormanager (50) may provide composed information handling systemcomposition services. Composed information handling system compositionservices may include (i) obtaining composition requests for composedinformation handling systems and (ii) aggregating computing resourcesfrom the information handling systems (60) and/or external resources(30) using system control processors to service the composition requestsby instantiating composed information handling systems in accordancewith the requests. By doing so, instantiated composed informationhandling systems may provide computer implemented services in accordancewith the composition requests.

In one or more embodiments of the invention, the system controlprocessor manager (50) instantiates composed information handlingsystems in accordance with a three resource set model. As will bediscussed in greater detail below, the computing resources of aninformation handling system may be divided into three logical resourcesets: a compute resource set, a control resource set, and a hardwareresource set. Different resource sets, or portions thereof, from thesame or different information handling systems may be aggregated (e.g.,caused to operate as a computing device) to instantiate a composedinformation handling system having at least one resource set from eachset of the three resource set model.

By logically dividing the computing resources of an information handlingsystem into these resource sets, different quantities an types ofcomputing resources may be allocated to each composed informationhandling system thereby enabling the resources allocated to therespective information handling system to match performed workloads.Further, dividing the computing resources in accordance with the threeset model may enable different resource sets to be differentiated (e.g.,given different personalities) to provide different functionalities.Consequently, composed information handling systems may be composed onthe basis of desired functionalities rather than just on the basis ofaggregate resources to be included in the composed information handlingsystem.

Additionally, by composing composed information handling systems in thismanner, the control resource set of each composed information handlingsystem may be used to consistently deploy management services across anynumber of composed information handling systems. Consequently,embodiments of the invention may provide a framework for unifiedsecurity, manageability, resource management/composability, workloadmanagement, and distributed system management by use of this threeresource set model. For additional details regarding the system controlprocessor manager (50), refer to FIG. 4 .

In one or more embodiments of the invention, a composed informationhandling system (also referred to herein as a composed system) is adevice that is formed using all, or a portion, of the computingresources of the information handling systems (60), the externalresources (30), and/or other types of hardware devices operativelyconnected to the information handling systems (60). The composedinformation handling system may utilize the computing resourcesallocated to it to provide computer implemented services. For example,the composed information handling system may host one or moreapplications that utilize the computing resources assigned to thecomposed information handling system. The applications may provide thecomputer implemented services.

To instantiate composed information handling systems, the informationhandling systems (60) may include at least three resource sets includinga control resource set. The control resource set may include a systemcontrol processor. The system control processor of each informationhandling system may coordinate with the system control processor manager(50) to enable composed information handling systems to be instantiated.For example, the system control processor of an information handlingsystem may provide telemetry data regarding the computing resources ofan information handling system, may perform actions on behalf of thesystem control processor manager (50) to aggregate computing resourcestogether, may organize the performance of duplicative workloads toimprove the likelihood that workloads are completed, and/or may provideservices that unify the operation of composed information handlingsystems.

In one or more embodiments of the invention, compute resource sets ofcomposed information handling systems are presented with bare metalresources by control resource sets even when the presented resources areactually being managed using one or more layers of abstraction,emulation, virtualization, security model, etc. For example, the systemcontrol processors of the control resource sets may provide theabstraction, emulation, virtualization, data protection, and/or otherservices while presenting the resources as bare metal resources.Consequently, these services may be transparent to applications hostedby the compute resource sets of composed information handling systemsthereby enabling uniform deployment of such services without requiringimplementation of control plane entities hosted by the compute resourcesets of the composed information handling systems. For additionaldetails regarding the information handling systems (60), refer to FIG.1.2 .

The external resources (30) may be provide computing resources that maybe allocated for use by composed information handling systems. Forexample, the external resources (30) may include hardware devices thatprovide any number and type of computing resources. The composedinformation handling system may use these resource to provide theirfunctionalities. Different external resources (e.g., 32, 34) may providesimilar or different computing resources.

In one or more embodiments of the invention, the system of FIG. 1.1includes backup storages (70) that provide data storage services to thecomposed information handling systems. The backup storages (70) mayinclude any number of backup storages, for example, the backup storages(70) may include backup storage A (72) and backup storage N (74). Thedata storage services may include storing of data provided by thecomposed information handling systems and providing previously storeddata to the composed information handling systems. The data stored inbackup storages (70) may be used for restoration purposes. The datastored in the backup storages (70) may be used for other purposeswithout departing from the invention. The data stored in backup storages(70) may include backups generated during the performance of dataprotection services of the composed information handling systems. Thebackups may be any type of backup (e.g., snapshot, incremental backup,full backup, etc.) without departing from the invention. The data storedin backup storages (70) may include other and/or additional types ofdata obtained from other and/or additional components without departingfrom the invention.

The system of FIG. 1.1 may include any number of information handlingsystems (e.g., 62, 64), any number of external resources (e.g., 32, 34),any number of backup storages (e.g., 72, 74), and any number of systemcontrol processor managers (e.g., 50). Any of the components of FIG. 1.1may be operatively connected to any other component and/or othercomponents not illustrated in FIG. 1.1 via one or more networks (e.g.,130). The networks may be implemented using any combination of wiredand/or wireless network topologies.

The system control processor manager (50), information handling systems(60), backup storages (70), and/or external resources (30) may beimplemented using computing devices. The computing devices may include,for example, a server, laptop computer, a desktop computer, a node of adistributed system, etc. The computing device may include one or moreprocessors, memory (e.g., random access memory), and/or persistentstorage (e.g., disk drives, solid state drives, etc.). The persistentstorage may store computer instructions, e.g., computer code, that (whenexecuted by the processor(s) of the computing device) cause thecomputing device to perform the functions of the system controlprocessor manager (50), information handling systems (60), backupstorages (70), and/or external resources (30) described in thisapplication and/or all, or a portion, of the methods illustrated inFIGS. 5.1 - 5.3 . The system control processor manager (50), informationhandling systems (60), backup storages (70), and/or external resources(30) may be implemented using other types of computing devices withoutdeparting from the invention. For additional details regarding computingdevices, refer to FIG. 7 .

While the system has been illustrated and described as including alimited number of specific components, a system in accordance withembodiments of the invention may include additional, fewer, and/ordifferent components without departing from the invention.

Turning to FIG. 1.2 , FIG. 1.2 shows a diagram of an informationhandling system (100) in accordance with one or more embodiments of theinvention. Any of the information handling systems (e.g., 60) of FIG.1.1 may be similar to the information handling system (100) illustratedin FIG. 1.2 .

As discussed above, the information handling system (100) may provideany quantity and type of computer implemented services. To provide thecomputer implemented services, resources of the information handlingsystem may be used to instantiate one or more composed informationhandling systems. The composed information handling systems may providethe computer implemented services.

To provide computer implemented services, the information handlingsystem (100) may include any number and type of hardware devicesincluding, for example, one or more processors (106), any quantity andtype of processor dedicated memory (104), one or more system controlprocessors (114), and any number of hardware resources (118). Thesehardware devices may be logically divided into three resource setsincluding a compute resource set (102), a control resource set (108),and a hardware resource set (110).

The control resource set (108) of the information handling system (100)may facilitate formation of composed information handling systems andperform telemetry services. To do so, the control resource set (108) mayprepare any quantity of resources from any number of hardware resourcesets (e.g., 110) (e.g., of the information handling system (100) and/orother information handling systems) for presentation to processingresources of any number of computing resource sets (e.g., 102) (e.g., ofthe information handling system (100) and/or other information handlingsystems). Once prepared, the control resource set (108) may present theprepared resources as bare metal resources to the processors (e.g., 106)of the allocated computing resources. By doing so, a composedinformation handling system may be instantiated. Additionally, thecontrol resource set (108) may prepare hardware resource sets (e.g.,110) or other computer resources (e.g., system control processors (114))to perform all, or a portion of, the telemetry services.

To prepare the resources of the hardware resource sets for presentation,the control resource set (108) may employ, for example, virtualization,indirection, abstraction, and/or emulation. These managementfunctionalities may be transparent to applications hosted by theresulting instantiated composed information handling systems.Consequently, while unknown to the control plane entities of thecomposed information handling system, the composed information handlingsystem may operate in accordance with any number of management modelsthereby providing for unified control and management of composedinformation handling systems. These functionalities may be transparentto applications hosted by composed information handling systems therebyrelieving them from overhead associated with these functionalities.

For example, consider a scenario where a compute resource set isinstructed to instantiate a composed information handling systemincluding a compute resource set and a hardware resource set that willcontribute storage resources to the compute resource set. The computeresource set may virtualize the storage resources of the hardwareresource set to enable a select quantity of the storage resources to beallocated to the composed information handling system while reservingsome of the storage resources for allocation to other composedinformation handling systems. However, the prepared storage resourcesmay be presented to the compute resource set as bare metal resources.Consequently, the compute resource set may not need to host any controlplane entities or otherwise incur overhead for utilizing the virtualizedstorage resources.

The compute resource set (102) may include one or more processors (106)operatively connected to the processor dedicated memory (104).Consequently, the compute resource set (102) may host any number ofexecuting processes thereby enabling any number and type of workloads tobe performed. When performing the workloads, the compute resource set(102) may utilize computing resources provided by the hardware resourceset (110) of the information handling system (100), hardware resourcesets of other information handling systems, and/or external resources.

The processors (106) of the compute resource set (102) may beoperatively connected to one or more system control processors (114) ofthe control resource set (108). For example, the processors (106) may beconnected to a compute resource interface (112), which is also connectedto the system control processors (114).

The system control processors (114) of the control resource set (108)may present computing resources to the processors (106) as bare metalresources. In other words, from the point of view of the processors(106), any number of bare metal resources may be operatively connectedto it via the compute resources interface (112) when, in reality, thesystem control processors (114) are operatively connected to theprocessors (106) via the compute resources interface (112). In otherwords, the system control processors (114) may manage presentation ofother types of resources to the compute resource set (102).

By presenting the computing resources to the processors as bare metalresources, control plane entities (e.g., applications) such ashypervisors, emulators, and/or other types of management entities maynot need to be hosted (e.g., executed) by the processors (106) for theprocessors (106) and entities hosted by them to utilize the computingresources allocated to a composed information handling system.Accordingly, all of the processing resources provided by the computeresource set (102) may be dedicated to providing the computerimplemented services.

For example, the processors (106) may utilize mapped memory addresses tocommunicate with the bare metal resources presented by the systemcontrol processors (114) to the processors (106). The system controlprocessors (114) may obtain these communications and appropriately remap(e.g., repackage, redirect, encapsulate, etc.) the communications to theactual hardware devices providing the computing resources, which theprocessors (106) are interacting with via the compute resourcesinterface (112) and/or hardware resources interface (116), discussedbelow. Consequently, indirection, remapping, and/or other functionsrequired for resource virtualization, emulation, abstraction, or othermethods of resource allocation (other than bare metal) and manage maynot need to be implemented via the processors (106).

By doing so, any number of functions for a composed information handlingsystem may be automatically performed in a manner that is transparent tothe control plane. Accordingly, a composed information handling systemmay operate in a manner consistent with a unified, consistentarchitecture or model (e.g., communications model, data storage model,etc.) by configuring the operation of one or more system controlprocessors in a manner consistent with the architecture or model.

In one or more embodiments of the invention, control plane entitiesutilize computing resources presented through one or more layers ofindirection, abstraction, virtualization, etc. In other words, anindirect user of hardware devices and computing resources providedthereby.

In one or more embodiments of the invention, data plane entitiesdirectly utilize computing resources. For example, data plane entitiesmay instruct hardware devices on their operation thereby directlyutilizing computing resources provided thereby. Data plane entities maypresent the computing resources to control plane entities using one ormore layers of indirection, abstraction, virtualization, etc.

The system control processors (114) may present any number of resourcesoperatively connected to it (e.g., the hardware resource set (110),other resources operatively connected to it via an interface (e.g.,hardware resources interface (116), etc.) as bare metal resources to theprocessors (106) of the compute resource set (102). Consequently, thesystem control processors (114) may implement device discovery processescompatible with the processors (106) to enable the processors (106) toutilize the presented computing resources.

For example, the hardware resource set (110) may include hardwareresources (118) operatively connected to the system control processors(114) via a hardware resources interface (116). The hardware resources(118) may include any number and type of hardware devices that providecomputing resources. For additional details regarding the hardwareresources (118), refer to FIG. 2 .

In another example, the system control processors (114) may beoperatively connected to other hardware resource sets of otherinformation handling systems via hardware resources interface (116),network (130), and/or other system control processors of the otherinformation handling systems. The system control processors (114) maycooperatively enable hardware resource sets of other informationhandling systems to be prepared and presented as bare metal resources tothe compute resource set (102).

In an additional example, the system control processors (114) may beoperatively connected to external resources via hardware resourcesinterface (116) and network (130). The system control processors (114)may prepare and present the external resources as bare metal resourcesto the compute resource set (102).

For additional details regarding the operation and functions of thesystem control processors (114), refer to FIG. 3 .

The compute resources interface (112) may be implemented using anysuitable interconnection technology including, for example, system busessuch as compute express links or other interconnection protocols. Thecompute resources interface (112) may support any input/output (IO)protocol, any memory protocol, any coherence interface, etc. The computeresources interface (112) may support processor to device connections,processor to memory connections, and/or other types of connections. Thecompute resources interface (112) may be implemented using one or morehardware devices including circuitry adapted to provide thefunctionality of the compute resources interface (112).

The hardware resources interface (116) may be implemented using anysuitable interconnection technology including, for example, system busessuch as compute express links or other interconnection protocols. Thehardware resources interface (116) may support any input/output (IO)protocol, any memory protocol, any coherence interface, etc. Thehardware resources interface (116) may support processor to deviceconnections, processor to memory connections, and/or other types ofconnections. The hardware resources interface (116) may be implementedusing one or more hardware devices including circuitry adapted toprovide the functionality of the hardware resources interface (116).

In some embodiments of the invention, the compute resource set (102),control resource set (108), and/or hardware resource set (110) may beimplemented as separate physical devices. In such a scenario, thecompute resources interface (112) and hardware resources interface (116)may include one or more networks enabling these resource sets tocommunicate with one another. Consequently, any of these resource sets(e.g., 102, 108, 110) may include network interface cards or otherdevices to enable the hardware devices of the respective resource setsto communicate with each other.

In one or more embodiments of the invention, the system controlprocessors (114) support multiple, independent connections. For example,the system control processors (114) may support a first networkcommunications connection (e.g., an in-band connection) that may beallocated for use by applications hosted by the processors (106). Thesystem control processors (114) may also support a second networkcommunications connection (e.g., an out-of-band connection) that may beallocated for use by applications hosted by the system controlprocessors (114). The out-of-ban connection may be utilized formanagement and control purposes while the in-band connection may beutilized to provide computer implemented services. These connections maybe associated with different network endpoints thereby enablingcommunications to be selectively directed toward applications hosted bythe processors (106) and/or system control processors (114). As will bediscussed in greater detail with respect to FIG. 3 , the system controlprocessors (114) may utilize the out-of-band connections to communicatewith other devices to manage (e.g., instantiate, monitor, modify, etc.)composed information handling systems.

The network (130) may correspond to any type of network and may beoperatively connected to the Internet or other networks thereby enablingthe information handling system (100) to communicate with any number andtype of other devices.

The information handling system (100) may be implemented using computingdevices. The computing devices may be, for example, a server, laptopcomputer, desktop computer, node of a distributed system, etc. Thecomputing device may include one or more processors, memory (e.g.,random access memory), and/or persistent storage (e.g., disk drives,solid state drives, etc.). The persistent storage may store computerinstructions, e.g., computer code, that (when executed by theprocessor(s) of the computing device) cause the computing device toperform the functions of the information handling system (100) describedin this application and/or all, or a portion, of the methods illustratedin FIGS. 5.1 - 5.3 . The information handling system (100) may beimplemented using other types of computing devices without departingfrom the invention. For additional details regarding computing devices,refer to FIG. 7 .

While the information handling system (100) has been illustrated anddescribed as including a limited number of specific components, aninformation handling system in accordance with embodiments of theinvention may include additional, fewer, and/or different componentswithout departing from the invention.

Turning to FIG. 2 , FIG. 2 shows a diagram of the hardware resources(118) in accordance with one or more embodiments of the invention. Asnoted above, system control processors of information handling systemmay present resources including, for example, any portion of thehardware resources (118) to form a composed information handling system.

The hardware resources (118) may include any number and types ofhardware devices that may provide any quantity and type of computingresources. For example, the hardware resources (118) may include storagedevices (200), memory devices (202), and special purpose devices (204).

The storage devices (200) may provide storage resources (e.g.,persistent storage) in which applications hosted by a composedinformation handling system may store data including any type andquantity of information. The system control processors or other entitiesmay write data chunks to the storage devices (200). The storage devices(200) may include any type and quantity of devices for storing data. Thedevices may include, for example, hard disk drives, solid state drives,tape drives, etc. The storage devices (200) may include other types ofdevices for providing storages resources without departing from theinvention. For example, the storage devices (200) may includecontrollers (e.g., redundant array of disk controllers), load balancers,and/or other types of devices.

The memory devices (202) may provide memory resources (e.g., transitoryand/or persistent storage) in which a composed information handlingsystem may store data including any type and quantity of information.The memory devices (202) may include any type and quantity of devicesfor storing data. The devices may include, for example, transitorymemory such as random access memory, persistent memory such asenterprise class memory, etc. The memory devices (202) may include othertypes of devices for providing memory resources without departing fromthe invention. For example, the storage devices (200) may includecontrollers (e.g., replication managers), load balancers, and/or othertypes of devices.

The special purpose devices (204) may provide other types of computingresources (e.g., graphics processing resources, computation accelerationresources, etc.) to composed information handling systems. The specialpurpose devices (204) may include any type and quantity of devices forproviding other types of computing resources. The special purposedevices (204) may include, for example, graphics processing units forproviding graphics processing resources, compute accelerators foraccelerating corresponding workloads performed by composed informationhandling systems, application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) forperforming other functionalities, digital signal processors forfacilitating high speed communications, etc. The special purpose devices(204) may include other types of devices for providing other types ofcomputing resources without departing from the invention.

The system control processors of the information handling systems maymediate presentation of the computing resources provided by the hardwareresources (118) to computing resource sets (e.g., as bare metalresources to processors). When doing so, the system control processorsmay provide a layer of abstraction that enables the hardware resources(118) to be, for example, virtualized, emulated as being compatible withother systems, and/or directly connected to the compute resource sets(e.g., pass through). Consequently, the computing resources of thehardware resources (118) may be finely, or at a macro level, allocatedto different composed information handling systems.

Additionally, the system control processors may manage operation ofthese hardware devices in accordance with one or more models, telemetrymodels. The models may include other models such as, for example,predictive analytics models, security models, workload performanceavailability models, reporting models, etc. The telemetry models mayinclude generating, obtaining, and/or maintaining telemetry data forcomposed information handling systems. For additional informationregarding the performance of telemetry services, refer to FIGS. 5.2 -5.3.

The manner of operation of these devices (i.e., the performance of theaforementioned telemetry services) may be transparent to users utilizingthe hardware devices for providing computer implemented services.Consequently, even though and users may be unaware of the implementationof these models, the composed information handling systems may stilloperate in accordance with these models thereby providing a reliable,efficient, and secure method of performing the telemetry services forcomposed information handling systems.

While the hardware resources (118) have been illustrated and describedas including a limited number of specific components, hardware resources(118) in accordance with embodiments of the invention may includeadditional, fewer, and/or different components without departing fromthe invention.

As discussed above, information handling systems may include systemcontrol processors that may be used to instantiate composed informationhandling systems. FIG. 3 shows a diagram of a system control processor(298) in accordance with one or more embodiments of the invention. Anyof the system control processors included in control resources sets ofFIG. 1.2 may be similar to the system control processor (298)illustrated in FIG. 3 .

The system control processor (298) may facilitate instantiation andoperation of composed information handling systems. By doing so, asystem that includes information handling systems may dynamicallyinstantiate composed information handling systems to provide computerimplemented services and to provide local telemetry services for thecomposed information handling system.

To instantiate and operate composed information handling systems, thesystem control processor (298) may include a composition manager (300),a physical resources manager (302), an emulated resources manager (304),a virtual resources manager (306), an telemetry collection manager(320), an system control processor manager (308), hardware resourceservices (310), and storage (312). Each of these components of thesystem control processor is discussed below.

The composition manager (300) may manage the process of instantiatingand operating composed information handling systems. To provide thesemanagement services, the composition manager (300) may includefunctionality to (i) obtain information regarding the hardwarecomponents of the information handling system (e.g., obtain telemetrydata regarding the information handling system), (ii) provide theobtained information to other entities (e.g., management entities suchas system control processor manager (50, FIG. 1.1 )), (iii) obtaincomposition requests for composed information handling systems, (iv)based on the composition requests, prepare and present resources as baremetal resources to compute resource sets, (v) instantiate applicationsin composed information handling systems to cause the composedinformation handling systems to provide computer implemented services,conform their operation to security models, etc., (vi) add/remove/modifyresources presented to the compute resource sets of composed informationhandling systems dynamically in accordance with workloads beingperformed by the composed information handling systems, and/or (vii)coordinate with other system control processors to provide distributedsystem functionalities. By providing the above functionalities, a systemcontrol processor in accordance with one or more embodiments of theinvention may enable distributed resources from any number ofinformation handling systems to be aggregated into a composedinformation handling system to provide computer implemented services.

To obtain information regarding the hardware components of theinformation handling system, the composition manager (300) may inventorythe components of the information handling system hosting the systemcontrol processor. The inventory may include, for example, the type andmodel of each hardware component, versions of firmware or other codeexecuting on the hardware components, and/or other information regardinghardware components of the information handling system that may beallocated to form composed information handling systems.

The composition manager (300) may obtain composition requests from otherentities (e.g., management entities tasked with instantiating composedinformation handling systems) as pre-loaded instructions present instorage of the system control processor, and/or via other methods. Thecomposition requests may specify, for example, the types and quantitiesof computing resources to be allocated to a composed informationhandling system.

In one or more embodiments of the invention, the composition requestsspecify the computing resource allocations using an intent based model.For example, rather than specifying specific hardware devices (orportions thereof) to be allocated to a particular compute resource setto obtain a composed information handling system, the resource requestsmay only specify that a composed information handling system is to beinstantiated having predetermined characteristics, that a composedinformation handling system will perform certain workloads or executecertain applications, and/or that the composed information handlingsystem be able to perform one or more predetermined functionalities. Insuch a scenario, the composition manager may decide how to instantiatethe composed information handling system (e.g., which resources toallocate, how to allocate the resources (e.g., virtualization,emulation, redundant workload performance, data integrity models toemploy, etc.), to which compute resource set(s) to present correspondingcomputing resources, etc.).

In one or more embodiments of the invention, the composition requestsspecify the computing resource allocations using an explicit model. Forexample, the composition requests may specify (i) the resources to beallocated, (ii) the manner of presentation of those resources (e.g.,emulating a particular type of device using a virtualized resource vs.path through directly to a hardware component), and (iii) the computeresource set(s) to which each of the allocated resources are to bepresented.

In addition to specifying resource allocations, the composition requestsmay also specify, for example, applications to be hosted by the composedinformation handling systems, security models to be employed by thecomposed information handling systems, communication models to beemployed by the composed information handling systems, data protectionservices to be provided to the composed information handling systems,user/entity access credentials for use of the composed informationhandling systems, and/or other information usable to place the composedinformation handling systems into states in which the composedinformation handling systems provide desired computer implementedservices.

To prepare and present resources to compute resource sets based on thecomposition requests, the system control processors may implement, forexample, abstraction, indirection, virtualization, mapping, emulation,and/or other types of services that may be used to present any type ofresources as a resource that is capable of bare metal utilization bycompute resource sets. To provide these services, the compositionmanager (300) may invoke the functionality of the physical resourcesmanager (302), the emulated resources manager (304), and/or the virtualresources manager (306).

Additionally, the system control processors may take into account animportance of completion of workloads when preparing and presentingresources. For example, some workloads that may be performed by varioushardware devices may be critical (e.g., high availability workloads) tothe computer implemented services to be provided by a composedinformation handling system. In such a scenario, the system controlprocessor may over allocate resources (e.g., beyond that requested by acompute resource set) for performance of the workloads so that at leasttwo instances of the workloads can be performed using duplicativeresources. By doing so, it may be more likely that at least one of theworkloads will be completed successfully. Consequently, the systemcontrol processor may provide the output of one of the workloads tocompute resource sets of a composed information handling system.

When presenting the resources to the compute resource sets, the systemcontrol processor (298) may present the resources using an emulated dataplane. For example, the system control processors (298) may receive baremetal communications (e.g., IO from the processors) and respond in amanner consistent with responses of corresponding bare metal devices(e.g., memory). When doing so, the system control processor (298) maytranslate the communications into actions. The actions may be providedto the hardware devices used by the system control processor (298) topresent the bare metal resources to the compute resource set(s). Inturn, the hardware devices may perform the actions which results in acomposed information handling system providing desired computerimplemented services.

In some scenarios, multiple system control processors may cooperate topresent bare metal resources to a compute resource set. For example, asingle information handling system may not include sufficient hardwaredevices to present a quantity and/or type of resources to a computeresource set as specified by a composition requests (e.g., present twostorage devices to a compute resource set when a single informationhandling system only includes a single storage device). In thisscenario, a second system control processor of a second informationhandling system operatively connected to the system control processortasked with presenting the resources to a compute resource set mayprepare one of its storage devices for presentation. Once prepared, thesecond system control processor may communicate with the system controlprocessor to enable the system control processor to present the preparedstorage device (i.e., the storage device in the information handlingsystem) to the compute resource set. By doing so, resources frommultiple information handling system may be aggregated to present adesired quantity of resources to compute resource set(s) to form acomposed information handling system.

By forming composed information handling systems as discussed above,embodiments of the invention may provide a system that is able toeffectively utilize distributed resources across a range of devices toprovide computer implemented services.

The physical resources manager (302) may manage presentation ofresources to compute resource sets. For example, the physical resourcesmanager (302) may generate, for example, translation tables that specifyactions to be performed in response to bare metal communicationsobtained from compute resource sets. The translation tables may be usedto take action in response to communications from compute resource sets.

The physical resources manager (302) may generate the translation tablesbased on the components of the compute resource sets, allocations orother types of commands/communications obtained from the computeresource sets, and the resources of the information handling systemallocated to service the compute resource set. For example, when acompute resource set is presented with a bare metal resource, it may gothrough a discovery process to prepare the bare metal resource for use.As the discovery process proceeds, the compute resource set may sendcommands/communications to the bare metal resource to, for example,discover its address range. The physical resources manager (302) maymonitor this process, respond appropriately, and generate thetranslation table based on these command and the resources available toservice these bare metal commands/communications.

For example, consider a scenario where a virtualized disk is allocatedto service bare metal storage commands from a compute resource set. Insuch a scenario, the physical resources manager (302) may generate atranslation table that translates physical write from the computeresource set to virtualized writes corresponding to the virtualizeddisk. Consequently, the virtualized disk may be used by the systemcontrol processor (298) to present bare metal resources to the computeresource set.

The emulated resources manager (304) may generate emulation tables thatenable resources that would otherwise be incompatible with a computeresource set to be compatible with the compute resource set. Differenttypes of hardware devices of a compute resource set may be compatiblewith different types of hardware devices. Consequently, resourcesallocated to provide bare metal resources may not necessarily becompatible with the hardware devices of a compute resource set. Theemulated resources manager (304) may generate emulation tables that mapbare metal communications obtained from a compute resource set toactions that are compatible with resources allocated to provide baremetal resources to the compute resource sets.

The virtual resources manager (306) may manage virtualized resourcesthat may be allocated to provide bare metal resources to computeresource sets. For example, the virtual resources manager (306) mayinclude hypervisor functionality to virtualized hardware resources andallocate portions of the virtualized resources for use in providing baremetal resources.

While the physical resources manager (302), emulated resources manager(304), and virtual resources manager (306) have been described asgenerating tables, these components of the system control processor maygenerate other types of data structures or utilize different managementmodels to provide their respective functionalities without departingfrom the invention.

To provide the aforementioned local telemetry services, the systemcontrol processor (298) may include the telemetry collection manager(320). The telemetry collection manager (320) may include thefunctionality to perform all, or a portion, of the local telemetryservices. The local telemetry services may include (i) instantiatingdata collectors to generate and/or obtain telemetry data, (ii)generating data collector information associated with the datacollectors, (iii) storing and/or maintaining telemetry data (e.g.,telemetry data (318)) obtained from the data collectors, (iv) obtainingrequests for telemetry data to satisfy a telemetry intent from thesystem control processor manager (e.g., 50, FIG. 1.1 ), and (v)providing telemetry data to the system control processor manager (e.g.,50, FIG. 1.1 ) to satisfy telemetry intents. The local telemetryservices may include other and/or additional services without departingfrom the invention. For additional information regarding the telemetryservices, refer to FIGS. 5.2 - 5.3 . Other components of the systemcontrol processor (298) (e.g., composition manager (300)) may performall, or a portion, of the local telemetry services without departingfrom the invention.

The functionalities of the physical resources manager (302), emulatedresources manager (304), virtual resources manager (306), and thetelemetry collection manager (320) may be utilized in isolation and/orcombination to provide bare metal resources to compute resource sets andto provide management services to the composed information handlingsystem. By doing so, the system control processor (298) may addresscompatibility issues, sizing issues to match available resources tothose that are to be allocated, and/or other issues to enable bare metalresources to be presented to compute resource sets.

When providing bare metal resources, the composition manager (300) mayinvoke the functionality of the physical resources manager (302),emulated resources manager (304), and virtual resources manager (306).Consequently, resources may be presented as bare metal resources viapass-through (i.e., forwarding IO from compute resource sets to hardwaredevices), bare metal resource addressing of virtualized resources,and/or as emulated resources compatible with the hardware components ofthe compute resource set.

The functionality of the physical resources manager (302), emulatedresources manager (304), virtual resources manager (306), and thetelemetry collection manager (320) may be invoked using anycommunication model including, for example, message passing, statesharing, memory sharing, etc.

The system control processor manager (308) may manage the generaloperation of the system control processor (298). For example, the systemcontrol processor manager (308) may operate as an operating system orother entity that manages the resources of the system control processor(298). The composition manager (300), physical resources manager (302),emulated resources manager (304), virtual resources manager (306), andthe telemetry collection manager (320) and/or other entities hosted bythe system control processor (298) may call or otherwise utilize thesystem control processor manager (308) to obtain appropriate resources(e.g., processing resources, memory resources, storage, communications,etc.) to provide their functionalities.

The hardware resource services (310) may facilitate use of the hardwarecomponents of any number of hardware resource sets (e.g., 110, FIG. 1.1). For example, the hardware resource services (310) may include driverfunctionality to appropriately communicate with the hardware devices ofhardware resource sets. The hardware resource services (310) may beinvoked by, for example, the system control processor manager (308).

When providing their functionalities, any of the aforementionedcomponents of the system control processor (298) may perform all, or aportion, methods illustrated in FIGS. 5.1 - 5.3 .

The system control processor (298) may be implemented using computingdevices. The computing devices may be, for example, an embeddedcomputing device such a system on a chip, a processing deviceoperatively coupled to memory and storage, or another type of computingdevice. The computing device may include one or more processors, memory(e.g., random access memory), and/or persistent storage (e.g., diskdrives, solid state drives, etc.). The persistent storage may storecomputer instructions, e.g., computer code, that (when executed by theprocessor(s) of the computing device) cause the computing device toperform the functions of the system control processor (298) described inthis application and/or all, or a portion, of the methods illustrated inFIGS. 5.1 - 5.3 . The system control processor (298) may be implementedusing other types of computing devices without departing from theinvention. For additional details regarding computing devices, refer toFIG. 7 .

In one or more embodiments of the invention, the system controlprocessor (298) is implemented as an on-board device. For example, thesystem control processor (298) may be implemented using a chip includingcircuitry disposed on a circuit card. The circuit card may also host thecompute resource sets and/or hardware resource sets managed by thesystem control processor (298).

In one or more embodiments of the invention, the composition manager(300), physical resources manager (302), emulated resources manager(304), virtual resources manager (306), telemetry collection manager(320), system control processor manager (308), and/or hardware resourceservices (310) are implemented using a hardware device includingcircuitry. The hardware device may be, for example, a digital signalprocessor, a field programmable gate array, or an application specificintegrated circuit. The circuitry may be adapted to cause the hardwaredevice to perform the functionality of the composition manager (300),physical resources manager (302), emulated resources manager (304),virtual resources manager (306), telemetry collection manager (320),system control processor manager (308), and/or hardware resourceservices (310). The composition manager (300), physical resourcesmanager (302), emulated resources manager (304), virtual resourcesmanager (306), telemetry collection manager (320), system controlprocessor manager (308), and/or hardware resource services (310) may beimplemented using other types of hardware devices without departing fromthe invention.

In one or more embodiments of the invention, the composition manager(300), physical resources manager (302), emulated resources manager(304), virtual resources manager (306), telemetry collection manager(320), system control processor manager (308), and/or hardware resourceservices (310) are implemented using a processor adapted to executecomputing code stored on a persistent storage (e.g., as part of thesystem control processor (298) or operatively connected to the systemcontrol processor (298) thereby enabling processors of the systemcontrol processor (298) to obtain and execute the computing code) thatwhen executed by the processor performs the functionality of thecomposition manager (300), physical resources manager (302), emulatedresources manager (304), virtual resources manager (306), telemetrycollection manager (320), system control processor manager (308), and/orhardware resource services (310). The processor may be a hardwareprocessor including circuitry such as, for example, a central processingunit or a microcontroller. The processor may be other types of hardwaredevices for processing digital information without departing from theinvention.

As used herein, an entity that is programmed to perform a function(e.g., step, action, etc.) refers to one or more hardware devices (e.g.,processors, digital signal processors, field programmable gate arrays,application specific integrated circuits, etc.) that provide thefunction. The hardware devices may be programmed to do so by, forexample, being able to execute computer instructions (e.g., computercode) that cause the hardware devices to provide the function. Inanother example, the hardware device may be programmed to do so byhaving circuitry that has been adapted (e.g., modified) to perform thefunction. An entity that is programmed to perform a function does notinclude computer instructions in isolation from any hardware devices.Computer instructions may be used to program a hardware device that,when programmed, provides the function.

In one or more embodiments disclosed herein, the storage (312) isimplemented using physical devices that provide data storage services(e.g., storing data and providing copies of previously stored data). Thedevices that provide data storage services may include hardware devicesand/or logical devices. For example, storage (312) may include anyquantity and/or combination of memory devices (i.e., volatile storage),long term storage devices (i.e., persistent storage), other types ofhardware devices that may provide short term and/or long term datastorage services, and/or logical storage devices (e.g., virtualpersistent storage/virtual volatile storage).

For example, storage (312) may include a memory device (e.g., a dual inline memory device) in which data is stored and from which copies ofpreviously stored data are provided. In another example, storage (312)may include a persistent storage device (e.g., a solid-state disk drive)in which data is stored and from which copies of previously stored datais provided. In a still further example, storage (312) may include (i) amemory device (e.g., a dual in line memory device) in which data isstored and from which copies of previously stored data are provided and(ii) a persistent storage device that stores a copy of the data storedin the memory device (e.g., to provide a copy of the data in the eventthat power loss or other issues with the memory device that may impactits ability to maintain the copy of the data cause the memory device tolose the data).

The storage (312) may also be implemented using logical storage. Alogical storage (e.g., virtual disk) may be implemented using one ormore physical storage devices whose storage resources (all, or aportion) are allocated for use using a software layer. Thus, a logicalstorage may include both physical storage devices and an entityexecuting on a processor or other hardware device that allocates thestorage resources of the physical storage devices.

The storage (312) may store data structures including, for example,composed information handling system data (314), a resource map (316)and telemetry data (318). Each of these data structures is discussedbelow.

The composed information handling system data (314) may be implementedusing one or more data structures that includes information regardingcomposed information handling systems. For example, the composedinformation handling system data (314) may specify identifiers ofcomposed information handling systems and resources that have beenallocated to the composed information handling systems.

The composed information handling system data (314) may also includeinformation regarding the operation of the composed information handlingsystems. The information may include, for example, workload performancedata, resource utilization rates over time, and/or other informationthat may be utilized to manage the operation of the composed informationhandling systems.

The composed information handling system data (314) may further includeinformation regarding management models employed by system controlprocessors. For example, the composed information handling system data(314) may include information regarding duplicative data stored for dataintegrity purposes, redundantly performed workloads to meet highavailability service requirements, encryption schemes utilized toprevent unauthorized access of data, etc.

The composed information handling system data (314) may be maintainedby, for example, the composition manager (300). For example, thecomposition manager may add, remove, and/or modify information includedin the composed information handling system data (314) to cause theinformation included in the composed information handling system data(314) to reflect the state of the composed information handling systems.

The data structures of the composed information handling system data(314) may be implemented using, for example, lists, tables, unstructureddata, databases, etc. While illustrated in FIG. 3 as being storedlocally, the composed information handling system data (314) may bestored remotely and may be distributed across any number of deviceswithout departing from the invention.

The resource map (316) may be implemented using one or more datastructures that include information regarding resources of theinformation handling system and/or other information handling systems.For example, the resource map (316) may specify the type and/or quantityof resources (e.g., hardware devices, virtualized devices, etc.)available for allocation and/or that are already allocated to composedinformation handling systems. The resource map (316) may be used toprovide data to management entities such as system control processormanagers.

The data structures of the resource map (316) may be implemented using,for example, lists, tables, unstructured data, databases, etc. Whileillustrated in FIG. 3 as being stored locally, the resource map (316)may be stored remotely and may be distributed across any number ofdevices without departing from the invention.

The resource map (316) may be maintained by, for example, thecomposition manager (300). For example, the composition manager (300)may add, remove, and/or modify information included in the resource map(316) to cause the information included in the resource map (316) toreflect the state of the information handling system and/or otherinformation handling systems.

The telemetry data (318) may be implemented using one or more datastructures that includes information generated and/or obtained by datacollectors (not shown) during the performance of telemetry services.Data collectors may refer to applications, services, and/or devices thatmay include the functionality to generate and/or obtain telemetry dataassociated with composed information handling system components. Eachdata collector may be associated with one or more composed informationhandling system components. The data collectors may be implemented ascomputer instructions, which when executed by a system control processor(e.g., 298) or other processor of the composed information handlingsystem, cause the system control processor or the other processor toprovide the functionality of the data collectors described herein. Thedata collectors may include other and/or additional functionalitieswithout departing from the invention.

The data collectors may generate and/or obtain telemetry data: (i) inresponse to a request from the system control processor (298) or thesystem control processor manager (e.g., 50, FIG. 1.1 ), periodicallybased on a telemetry schedule, and/or in real time. The telemetry data(318) may include, for example, performance metrics, log files,utilization information, and other and/or additional types ofinformation associated with components of the composed informationhandling system without departing from the invention. Each telemetrydata component (e.g., performance metric, log file, etc.) of thetelemetry data (318) may be associated with a component identifier(e.g., hardware resource tag or compute resource tag associated withhardware resources, compute resources, workloads, services, etc.). Thecomponent identifier may specify which component of the composedinformation handling system the telemetry data component is associated.Each telemetry data component may further be associated with a datacollector identifier (e.g., a unique combination of bits associated witha data collector) that may be used to identify the data collector thatgenerated or obtained the telemetry data component. The componentidentifier and/or the data collector identifiers may be used to selecttelemetry data components of the telemetry data that satisfy telemetryintents.

The telemetry data (318) may be maintained in the storage (312) by thetelemetry collection manager (320) of the system control processor(298). The telemetry collection manager (320) may obtain the telemetrydata (318) from the data collectors, update telemetry data (318) storedin the storage (312), and remove telemetry data (318) from the storage(312), and/or provide copies of portions of telemetry data (318) to thesystem control processor manager (e.g., 50, FIG. 1.1 ) during theperformance of local telemetry services associated with the composedinformation handling system. The telemetry collection manager (320) maystore the telemetry data (318) in the storage (312). The system controlprocessor (298) may provide the a portions (i.e., a portion of thetelemetry data components) of the telemetry data (318) to the systemcontrol processor manager (50, FIG. 1.1 ) which may further provide thetelemetry data components to users (e.g., system administrators, qualityengineers, etc.) to for further processing and analysis. The telemetrydata (318) may be used be used for other and/or additional purposeswithout departing from the invention.

The data structures of the telemetry data (318) may be implementedusing, for example, lists, tables, unstructured data, databases, etc.While illustrated in FIG. 3 as being stored locally, the telemetry data(318) may be stored remotely and may be distributed across any number ofdevices without departing from the invention.

While illustrated in FIG. 3 as being stored locally on the storage (312)of the system control processor (298), the composed information handlingsystem data (314), resource map (316), and the telemetry data (318) maybe stored remotely and may be distributed across any number of devicesincluding storage devices of the hardware resource set of the composedsystem without departing from the invention.

While the storage (312) has been illustrated and described as includinga limited number and type of data, a storage in accordance withembodiments of the invention may store additional, less, and/ordifferent data without departing from the invention.

While the system control processor (298) has been illustrated anddescribed as including a limited number of specific components, a systemcontrol processor in accordance with embodiments of the invention mayinclude additional, fewer, and/or different components without departingfrom the invention.

As discussed above, a system control processor manager may cooperatewith system control processors of control resource sets to instantiatecomposed information handling systems by presenting computing resourcesfrom hardware resource sets to processors of compute resource sets. FIG.4 shows a diagram of the system control processor manager (50) inaccordance with one or more embodiments of the invention.

The system control processor manager (50) may manage the process ofinstantiating composed information handling systems. To do so, thesystem control processor manager (50) may include an infrastructuremanager (402), a telemetry distribution manager (404), a telemetrymanager (406), and storage (410). Each of these components is discussedbelow.

The infrastructure manager (402) may provide composition services.Composition services may include obtaining composition requests forcomposed information handling systems, determining the resources toallocate to instantiate composed information handling systems, andcooperating with system control processors to allocate the identifiedresources. By doing so, the infrastructure manager (402) may cause anynumber of computer implemented services to be provided using thecomposed information handling systems.

To determine the resources to allocate to composed information handlingsystems, the infrastructure manager (402) may employ an intent basedmodel that translates an intent expressed in a composition request toone more allocations of computing resources. For example, theinfrastructure manager (402) may utilize an outcome based computingresource requirements lookup table (414) to match an expressed intent toresources to be allocated to satisfy that intent. The outcome basedcomputing resource requirements lookup table (414) may specify the typea composed system blueprint, which may include the quantity, method ofmanagement, and/or other information regarding any number of computingresources that when aggregated will be able to satisfy a correspondingintent. The infrastructure manager (402) may identify resources forallocation to satisfy composition requests via other methods withoutdeparting from the invention.

To cooperate with the system control processors, the infrastructuremanager (402) may obtain telemetry data regarding the computingresources of any number of information handling systems and/or externalresources that are available for allocation. The infrastructure manager(402) may aggregate this data in a telemetry data repository (420) whichmay be subsequently used to identify resources of any number ofinformation handling systems and/or external resources to satisfycomposition requests (e.g., instantiate one or more composed informationhandling systems to meet the requirements of the composition requests).

When the infrastructure manager (402) identifies the computing resourcesto be allocated, the infrastructure manager (402) may communicate withany number of system control processors to implement the identifiedallocations. For example, the infrastructure manager (402) may notify asystem control processor of a control resource set that portions of ahardware resource set are to be allocated to a compute resource set toinstantiate a composed information handling system. The system controlprocessor may then take action (e.g., prepare the portion of thehardware resource set for presentation to a processor of the computeresource set) in response to the notification.

As composed information handling systems are instantiated, theinfrastructure manager (402) may add information reflecting theresources allocated to composed information handling systems, theworkloads being performed by the composed information handling systems,user identifiers (e.g., a unique combination of bits associated with aparticular user) associated with one or more users using the composedinformation handling systems, and/or other types of information to acomposed infrastructure map (416). The infrastructure manager (402) mayutilize this information to, for example, decide whether computingresources should be added to or removed from composed informationhandling system. Consequently, computing resources may be dynamicallyre-provisioned over time to meet changing workloads imposed on composedinformation handling systems.

The system control processor manager (50) may fail and/or otherwise losethe telemetry data map (412) and the composed infrastructure map (416)for any reason without departing from the invention. To continue toprovide composition services, the system control processor manager (50)may restore the telemetry data map (412) and the composed infrastructuremap (416) by performing a discovery to obtain telemetry data from systemcontrol processors and obtaining state information associated with thecomposed systems from one or more system control processors. The systemcontrol processor manager (50) may use the telemetry data and the stateinformation to repopulate the telemetry data map (412) and the composedinfrastructure map (416) and to determine whether any composedinformation handling systems need to be re-composed.

In one or more embodiments of the invention, the infrastructure manager(402) is implemented using a hardware device including circuitry. Thehardware device may be, for example, a digital signal processor, a fieldprogrammable gate array, or an application specific integrated circuit.The circuitry may be adapted to cause the hardware device to perform thefunctionality of the infrastructure manager (402). The infrastructuremanager (402) may be implemented using other types of hardware deviceswithout departing from the invention.

In one or more embodiments of the invention, the infrastructure manager(402) is implemented using a processor adapted to execute computing codestored on a persistent storage that when executed by the processorperforms the functionality of the infrastructure manager (402). Theprocessor may be a hardware processor including circuitry such as, forexample, a central processing unit or a microcontroller. The processormay be other types of hardware devices for processing digitalinformation without departing from the invention.

When providing its functionality, the infrastructure manager (402) mayperform all, or a portion, of the methods illustrated in FIG. 5.1 .

The telemetry distribution manager (404) may include the functionalityto setup telemetry services. Setting up telemetry services may include:(i) obtaining requests to instantiate composed information handlingsystems from users, (ii) determining whether composition requests areassociated with existing groups or new groups, (iii) determining whethercomposition requests associated with existing groups are furtherassociated with a change to the existing group, (iv) modifying telemetrydistribution information (e.g., 418) based on changes to existinggroups, (v) generating new telemetry distribution information for newgroups, (vi) instructing system control processors (e.g., 298) toinstantiate data collectors, and (vii) associated data collectors withtelemetry distribution information (418) and a telemetry data map (412).Setting up telemetry services may include other and/or additionalservices without departing from the invention. The telemetrydistribution manager (404) may include other and/or additionalfunctionalities without departing from the invention.

The telemetry distribution manager (404) may maintain telemetrydistribution information (418). The telemetry distribution information(418) may be one or more data structures that include group entries.Each group entry may include a group identifier, one or more useridentifiers, a group encryption key, communication informationassociated with users, a composed information handling systemidentifier, and data collector information. The telemetry distributioninformation (418) may include other and/or additional informationwithout departing from the invention. The telemetry distributioninformation (418) may be generated and maintained by the telemetrydistribution manager (404) when setting up telemetry services or whengroup modification requests (discussed below) are obtained. Thetelemetry distribution information (418) may be used by the telemetrymanager (406) when performing telemetry services.

The group identifier may be a unique combination of bits used toidentify a specific group of users. The user identifiers may be uniquecombinations of bits used to identify specific groups of users. Thecommunication information may be any appropriate information that may beused to enable the communication of instructions and/or data between thesystem control processor manager (50) and the users without departingfrom the invention. The group encryption key may be an encryption keygenerated and distributed to the users of the group periodically, when anew user is added to the group, or when a user is removed from thegroup. The group encryption key may be used by the telemetry manager(406) to encrypt aggregated telemetry data and by the user to decryptthe aggregated telemetry data. The composed information handling systemidentifier may be a unique combination of bits associated with composedinformation handling system and may be used to specify the composedinformation handling system. The data collector information may includedata collector identifiers associated with the data collectors of thecomposed information handling system, component identifiers associatedwith the data collectors, and telemetry data types (e.g., performancemetrics, log files, utilization measures, etc.).

The telemetry distribution manager (404), along with the telemetrymanager (406), may also maintain a telemetry data map (412). Thetelemetry data map (412), in addition to the discussion below, may beone or more data structures that include telemetry data map entries. Thetelemetry map entries may be used to map components of composedinformation handling systems (e.g., graphs, subgraphs, etc.). Thetelemetry data map entries may also be used to tag and manager telemetrydata associated with the composed information handling systems and thecomponents of composed information handling systems. Each telemetry datamap entry may include a transaction identifier associated with thecomposed information handling system, one or more hardware resource tags(discussed below) associated with at least one hardware resource sets,one or more compute resource tags associated with at least one computeresources sets, telemetry policies, and data collector information. Thetelemetry data map entries may include other and/or additionalinformation without departing from the invention. The telemetrydistribution manager (404) and/or the telemetry manager (406) may updatetelemetry maps when composed information handling systems are composed.The telemetry manager (406) may use the telemetry data map (412) toperform telemetry services.

In one or more embodiments of the invention, the infrastructure manager(402), the telemetry distribution manager (404) and/or the telemetrymanager (406) may use and/or maintain a telemetry policy repository(422). The telemetry policy repository (422) may be one or more datastructures that include composition intent entries. Each compositionintent entry may include a composition intent identifier and one or moretelemetry policies associated with the composition intent correspondingwith the composition intent identifier. A telemetry policy may specifyrules and/or requirements for performing telemetry services for composedinformation handling systems associated with the composition intent. Therules and/or requirements may include priorities associated withtelemetry data (i.e., which telemetry data type is more critical tomaintain), retention periods for telemetry data (how long may telemetrydata be stored in storage before being deleted and/or archived to backupstorage), and a telemetry schedule for collecting and/or providingtelemetry data. The telemetry policies may include other and/oradditional types of rules and/or requirements for performing telemetryservices without departing from the invention. The telemetry policyrepository (422) may be used by the telemetry distribution manager (404)when setting up telemetry services.

In one or more embodiments of the invention, the telemetry distributionmanager (404) is implemented using a hardware device includingcircuitry. The hardware device may be, for example, a digital signalprocessor, a field programmable gate array, or an application specificintegrated circuit. The circuitry may be adapted to cause the hardwaredevice to perform the functionality of the telemetry distributionmanager (404). The telemetry distribution manager (404) may beimplemented using other types of hardware devices without departing fromthe invention.

In one or more embodiments of the invention, the telemetry distributionmanager (404) is implemented using a processor adapted to executecomputing code stored on a persistent storage that when executed by theprocessor performs the functionality of the telemetry distributionmanager (404). The processor may be a hardware processor includingcircuitry such as, for example, a central processing unit or amicrocontroller. The processor may be other types of hardware devicesfor processing digital information without departing from the invention.

When providing its functionality, the telemetry distribution manager(404) may perform all, or a portion, of the methods illustrated in FIGS.5.1 - 5.2 .

To perform telemetry services, the system control processor manager (50)may include a telemetry manager (406). Performing the telemetry servicesmay include: (i) obtaining telemetry requests from users associated withgroups, (ii) identifying a telemetry intent associated with thetelemetry request, (iii) aggregate telemetry data obtained from systemcontrol processor and/or data collectors that satisfy the telemetryintent, (iv) encrypt the aggregated telemetry data using appropriategroup encryption keys, and (v) providing the encrypted aggregatedtelemetry data the users of the group. The telemetry services mayinclude other and/or additional services without departing from theinvention. The telemetry manager (406) may include the functionality toperform, all or a portion of, the method of FIG. 5.3 . The telemetrymanager (406) may include other and/or additional functionalitieswithout departing from the invention.

The telemetry manager (406) may further include the functionality tomaintain a telemetry data repository (420). The telemetry datarepository (420) may be one or more data structures that includecomposed information handling system entries. A composed informationhandling system entry may include a composed information handling systemidentifier, a transaction identifier, and telemetry data associated withthe composed information handling system corresponding with the composedinformation handling system identifier obtained from system controlprocessors and/or data collectors. The telemetry data may be anembodiment of the telemetry data (318) discussed above in FIG. 3 . Thetelemetry data repository (420) may be updated by the telemetry manager(406) as telemetry services are performed for composed informationhandling systems. The telemetry data included in the telemetry datarepository (420) may be the telemetry data necessary to satisfytelemetry intents during the performance of telemetry services. In otherwords, the telemetry data repository (420) may include telemetry dataassociated with an entire composed information handling system. Thetelemetry data repository (420) may be used by the telemetry manager(406) to perform telemetry services. The telemetry data repository (420)may include other and/or additional information and may be used forother and/or additional purposes without departing from the invention.

In one or more embodiments of the invention, the telemetry manager (406)is implemented using a hardware device including circuitry. The hardwaredevice may be, for example, a digital signal processor, a fieldprogrammable gate array, or an application specific integrated circuit.The circuitry may be adapted to cause the hardware device to perform thefunctionality of the telemetry manager (406). The telemetry manager(406) may be implemented using other types of hardware devices withoutdeparting from the invention.

In one or more embodiments of the invention, the telemetry manager (406)is implemented using a processor adapted to execute computing codestored on a persistent storage that when executed by the processorperforms the functionality of the telemetry manager (406). The processormay be a hardware processor including circuitry such as, for example, acentral processing unit or a microcontroller. The processor may be othertypes of hardware devices for processing digital information withoutdeparting from the invention.

When providing its functionality, the telemetry manager (406) mayperform all, or a portion, of the methods illustrated in FIG. 5.3 .

To perform the telemetry services, the system control processor manager(50) may include a predictor (408). The predictor (408) may include thefunctionality to generate predictive analytics using telemetry data. Togenerate predictive analytics, the predictor (408) may apply one or morepredictive analytics models to telemetry data. The predictive analyticsmodels may include any appropriate mathematical model that may generatepredictive analytics using telemetry data without departing from theinvention. The predictor (408) may further include the functionality tomaintain a prediction analytics repository (424) (discussed below). Thepredictor (408) may include the functionality to perform all, or aportion of, the methods of FIGS. 5.1 - 5.3 . The predictor may includeother and/or additional functionalities without departing from theinvention.

The predictive analytics repository (424) may be one or more datastructures that include predictive analytics repository entries. Eachpredictive analytics repository entry may include a transactionidentifier associated with a composed information handling system. Eachpredictive analytics repository entry may further include predictiveanalytics associated with the composed information handling systemcorresponding to the predictive analytics repository entry. Predictiveanalytics may include predicted future telemetry data. The predictiveanalytics may include, for example, predicted future performancemetrics, predicted future log files, predicted future utilizationinformation, and other and/or additional types of information associatedwith a future state of the components of the composed informationhandling system without departing from the invention. Each telemetrydata component (e.g., performance metric, log file, etc.) of thetelemetry data (318) may be associated with a component identifier(e.g., hardware resource tag or compute resource tag associated withhardware resources, compute resources, workloads, services, etc.). Thepredictive analytics may be used to optimize the instantiation ofcomposed information handling systems. The predictive analyticrepository (424) may include other and/or additional information and maybe used for other and/or additional purposes without departing from theinvention.

In one or more embodiments of the invention, the predictor (408) isimplemented using a hardware device including circuitry. The hardwaredevice may be, for example, a digital signal processor, a fieldprogrammable gate array, or an application specific integrated circuit.The circuitry may be adapted to cause the hardware device to perform thefunctionality of the predictor (408). The predictor (408) may beimplemented using other types of hardware devices without departing fromthe invention.

In one or more embodiments of the invention, the predictor (408) isimplemented using a processor adapted to execute computing code storedon a persistent storage that when executed by the processor performs thefunctionality of the predictor (408). The processor may be a hardwareprocessor including circuitry such as, for example, a central processingunit or a microcontroller. The processor may be other types of hardwaredevices for processing digital information without departing from theinvention.

In one or more embodiments disclosed herein, the storage (410) isimplemented using physical devices that provide data storage services(e.g., storing data and providing copies of previously stored data). Thedevices that provide data storage services may include hardware devicesand/or logical devices. For example, storage (410) may include anyquantity and/or combination of memory devices (i.e., volatile storage),long term storage devices (i.e., persistent storage), other types ofhardware devices that may provide short term and/or long term datastorage services, and/or logical storage devices (e.g., virtualpersistent storage/virtual volatile storage).

For example, storage (410) may include a memory device (e.g., a dual inline memory device) in which data is stored and from which copies ofpreviously stored data are provided. In another example, storage (410)may include a persistent storage device (e.g., a solid-state disk drive)in which data is stored and from which copies of previously stored datais provided. In a still further example, storage (410) may include (i) amemory device (e.g., a dual in line memory device) in which data isstored and from which copies of previously stored data are provided and(ii) a persistent storage device that stores a copy of the data storedin the memory device (e.g., to provide a copy of the data in the eventthat power loss or other issues with the memory device that may impactits ability to maintain the copy of the data cause the memory device tolose the data).

The storage (410) may also be implemented using logical storage. Alogical storage (e.g., virtual disk) may be implemented using one ormore physical storage devices whose storage resources (all, or aportion) are allocated for use using a software layer. Thus, a logicalstorage may include both physical storage devices and an entityexecuting on a processor or other hardware device that allocates thestorage resources of the physical storage devices.

The storage (410) may store data structures including, for example, thetelemetry data map (412), outcome based computing resource requirementslookup table (414), the composed infrastructure map (416), the telemetrydistribution information (418), the telemetry data repository (420), thetelemetry policy repository (422), and a predictive analytics repository(424). These data structures may be maintained by, for example, theinfrastructure manager (402), the telemetry distribution manager (404),the telemetry manager (406), and/or the predictor (408). For example,the infrastructure manager (402), the telemetry distribution manager(404), the telemetry manager (406), and/or the predictor (408) may add,remove, and/or modify information included in these data structures tocause the information included in these data structure to reflect thestate of any number of information handling systems, external resources,and/or composed information handling systems and to perform telemetryservices.

Any of these data structures may be implemented using, for example,lists, tables, unstructured data, databases, etc. While illustrated inFIG. 4 as being stored locally, any of these data structures may bestored remotely and may be distributed across any number of deviceswithout departing from the invention.

While the storage (410) has been illustrated and described as includinga limited number and type of data, a storage in accordance withembodiments of the invention may store additional, less, and/ordifferent data without departing from the invention.

While the system control processor manager (50) has been illustrated anddescribed as including a limited number of specific components, a systemcontrol processor manager in accordance with embodiments of theinvention may include additional, fewer, and/or different componentsthan those illustrated in FIG. 4 without departing from the invention.

As discussed above, the system of FIG. 1.1 may provide computerimplemented services using composed information handling systems. FIGS.5.1 -5.3 show methods that may be performed by components of the systemof FIG. 1.1 to compose and manage composed information handling systems.

Turning to FIG. 5.1 , FIG. 5.1 shows a flowchart of a method inaccordance with one or more embodiments of the invention. The methoddepicted in FIG. 5.1 may be performed to instantiate a composedinformation handling system in accordance with one or more embodimentsof the invention. The method shown in FIG. 5.1 may be performed by, forexample, a system control processor manager (e.g., 50, FIG. 1.1 ). Othercomponents of the system in FIG. 1.1 may perform all, or a portion, ofthe method of FIG. 5.1 without departing from the invention.

While FIG. 5.1 is illustrated as a series of steps, any of the steps maybe omitted, performed in a different order, additional steps may beincluded, and/or any or all of the steps may be performed in a paralleland/or partially overlapping manner without departing from theinvention.

In step 500, a composition request for a composed information handlingsystem is obtained. The composition request may be obtained using anymethod without departing from the invention. For example, thecomposition request may be obtained as part of a message from anotherentity operatively connected to a system control processor manager. Inanother example, the composition request may be locally stored in astorage of a system control processor manager.

The composition request may be a data structure specifying that thecomposed information handling system is to be instantiated. As discussedwith respect to FIG. 3 , the composition request may be specific (i.e.,includes a listing of resources to be allocated to the composedinformation handling system) or intent based (i.e., a desired outcomewithout specifying the resources to be allocated). The compositionrequest may include any type and quantity of information usable todetermine how to instantiate a composed information handling system.

In one or more embodiments of the invention, the composition requestincludes a list of computing resources to be allocated to the composedinformation handling system. For example, the composition request mayspecify computing resources, memory resources, storage resources,graphics processing resources, compute acceleration resources,communications resources, etc. The list may include any type andquantity of computing resources. The list of computing resources mayinclude computing resources to be used to provide data protectionservices.

In one or more embodiments of the invention, the composition requestspecifies how the computing resources are to be presented. For example,the composition request may specify virtualization, emulation, etc. forpresenting the computing resources.

In one or more embodiments of the invention, the composition requestspecifies how the resources used to present the computing resources areto be managed (e.g., a management model such as data integrity,security, management, usability, performance, etc.). For example, thecomposition request may specify levels of redundancy for data storage,data integrity to be employed (e.g., redundant array of independentdisks (RAID), error correction code (ECC), etc.), levels of security tobe employed for resources (e.g., encryption), and/or other informationthat specifies how system control processors are to utilize resourcesfor presentation of resources to composed information handling systems.The composition request may specify that telemetry services are to beprovided to the computing resources of the composed information handlingsystem. The data protection services may include performingdeduplication and/or compression on data generated by applicationsexecuting in the composed information handling system. The methodsemployed by the system control processors, or a portion thereof, may betransparent to the composed information handling systems because theresources may be presented to the compute resource sets of the composedinformation handling systems as bare metal resources while the systemcontrol processors provide the management functionality.

In one or more embodiments of the invention, the composition requestincludes a list of applications to be hosted by the composed informationhandling system. The list may include any type and quantity ofapplications.

The composition request may also specify the identities of one or moresystem control processors hosted by other devices. In some scenarios, asnoted above, resources from other information handling systems may beused to form a composed information handling system. The identifiers ofthe system control processors of these other information handlingsystems may be used to form operable connections between the systemcontrol processors. These connections may be used by the system controlprocessors to present, as bare metal resources, computing resources fromother information handling systems to compute resource set(s) of thecomposed information handling system.

In one or more embodiments of the invention, the composition requestspecifies a desired outcome. The desired outcome may be, for example,computer implemented services to be provided in response to thecomposition request, telemetry services are to be provided in responseto the composition request, etc. In another example, the desired outcomemay be a list of applications to be hosted in response to thecomposition request. In other words, the composition request may specifya desired outcome without specifying the resources that are to be usedto satisfy the requests, the methods of managing the resources, modelsemployed to provide for data protection/integrity/security/etc. Such acomposition request may be referred to as an intent based compositionrequest.

In step 502, a composed system blueprint associated with the compositionrequest is identified. As discussed above, the outcome based computingresource requirements lookup table (e.g., 414, FIG. 4 ) may include alist of composition intents. Each composition intent may be associatedwith a composed system blueprint. The system control processor managermay compare the composition intent included in the composition requestwith the composition intents included in the outcome based computingresource requirements lookup table. The system control processor managermay identify the composition intent included in the outcome basedcomputing resources lookup table that matches the composition intentincluded in the composition request as the composition intent associatedwith the composition request. The system control processor manager mayidentify the composed system blueprint associated with the identifiedcomposition intent as the composed system blueprint. A composed systemblueprint associated with the composition request may be identified viaother and/or additional methods without departing from the invention.

In step 504, a determination is made as to whether there are predictiveanalytics associated with the composed system blueprint. In one or moreembodiments of the invention, the system control processor managerdetermines whether there are predictive analytics associated with thecomposed system blueprint using the telemetry data map and thepredictive analytics repository. The telemetry data map may include oneor more telemetry data map entries for previously generated composedinformation handling systems that were generated using the composedsystem blueprint. Such telemetry data map entries may include thecomposed system blueprint identifier associated with the composed systemblueprint. The system control processor manager may identify alltelemetry data map entries that include the composed system blueprintidentifier. The system control processor manager may identify thecorresponding transaction identifier of each identified telemetry datamap entry. The system control processor manager may compare thetransaction identifier of each identified telemetry data map entry withthe transaction identifier included in the predictive analyticsrepository entries.

In one or more embodiments of the invention, if the system controlprocessor manager identifies a match between a transaction identifierincluded in predictive analytics entry to that of an identifiedtelemetry data map entry, then the system control processor manager maydetermine that there are predictive analytics associated with thecomposed system blueprint. In one or more embodiments of the invention,if the system control processor manager does not identify a matchbetween a transaction identifier included in any predictive analyticsentry to that of all the identified telemetry data map entries, then thesystem control processor manager may determine that there are notpredictive analytics associated with the composed system blueprint. Thedetermination as whether there are predictive analytics associated withthe composed system blueprint may be made via other and/or additionalmethods without departing from the invention.

In one or more embodiments of the invention, if it is determined thatthere are predictive analytics associated with the composed systemblueprint, then the method proceeds to step 508. In one or moreembodiments of the invention, if it is determined that there are notpredictive analytics associated with the composed system blueprint, thenthe method proceeds to step 506.

In step 506, a composed infrastructure associated with the composedsystem blueprint capable of performing the composition intent isidentified based on telemetry data. The system control processor managermay obtain telemetry data associated with the transaction identifiersincluded in the telemetry data entries identified above in step 504. Thesystem control processor manager may check the obtained telemetry dataof previously instantiated composed information handling systems todetermine whether the past states and/or current state of previouslyinstantiated composed information handling system indicate that thecomposed system blueprint requires alteration to satisfy the compositionintent. In other words, the telemetry data may indicate one or moreissues (e.g., SLOs not being met, resource utilization thresholds beingreached or exceeded, etc.) that may result in a composed informationhandling system experiencing poor performances, errors and/or failures.If the telemetry data indicates that the composed system blueprintrequires alteration to satisfy the composition request, then the systemcontrol processor manager may update the composed system blueprint(e.g., by scaling out and/or scaling up the resource requirements of theoriginal composed system blueprint).

The system control processor manager may use the telemetry data toidentify a composed infrastructure that includes the resources specifiedby the updated composed system blueprint that have the required capacityto instantiate the composed information handling system to perform theworkflow. Due to the possibility of incompatibility with sharedresources of information handling systems between multiple composedinformation handling systems, the system control processor manager mayalso use the telemetry data to ensure that the resources of the composedinfrastructure that are executing workflows for other composedinformation handling systems are compatible with the composedinfrastructure and the workflow of the composition request. Thetelemetry data may indicate any current and/or past incompatibilityissues for previously instantiated composed information handlingsystems. An example of an incompatibility between resources may includea noisy neighbor (e.g., where another composed information handlingsystem using a shared resources monopolizes the resources), resourcecompetition, etc. The composed infrastructure may include at least onecompute resource set, at least one hardware resource set, and at leastone control resource set. The system control processor manager mayreplace the original composed system blueprint with the updated composedsystem blueprint.

If the telemetry data does not indicate that an alteration to thecomposed system blueprint is required, then the system control processormay use the original composed system blueprint to identify the composedinfrastructure. The system control processor manager may use thetelemetry data to identify a composed infrastructure that includes theresources specified by the original composed system blueprint that havethe required capacity to instantiate the composed information handlingsystem to perform the workflow. Due to the possibility ofincompatibility with shared resources of information handling systemsbetween multiple composed information handling systems, the systemcontrol processor manager may also use the telemetry data to ensure thatthe resources of the composed infrastructure that are executingworkflows for other composed information handling systems are compatiblewith the composed infrastructure and the workflow of the compositionrequest. The telemetry data may indicate any current and/or pastincompatibility issues for previously instantiated composed informationhandling systems. An example of an incompatibility between resources mayinclude a noisy neighbor (e.g., where another composed informationhandling system using a shared resources monopolizes the resources),resource competition, etc. The composed infrastructure may include atleast one compute resource set, at least one hardware resource set, andat least one control resource set.

If no telemetry data exists that is associated with previously generatedcomposed information handling systems instantiated using the composedsystem blueprint, then the system control processor manager may identifythe composed infrastructure using the composed system blueprint withoutdetermining whether to alter it or if there are any potentialincompatibility issues. The system control processor manager may use thetelemetry data to identify a composed infrastructure that includes theresources specified by the original composed system blueprint that havethe required capacity to instantiate the composed information handlingsystem to perform the workflow. The composed infrastructure may includeat least one compute resource set, at least one hardware resource set,and at least one control resource set.

The composed infrastructure associated with the composed systemblueprint capable of performing the composition intent may be identifiedbased on telemetry data via other and/or additional methods withoutdeparting from the invention. In one or more embodiments of theinvention, the method may proceed to step 510 following step 506.

In step 508, a composed infrastructure associated with the composedsystem blueprint capable of performing the composition intent isidentified based on telemetry data and predictive analytics. The systemcontrol processor manager may obtain telemetry data and predictiveanalytics associated with the transaction identifiers included in thetelemetry data entries and the predictive analytics repository entriesidentified above in step 504. The system control processor manager maycheck the obtained telemetry data and predictive analytics of previouslyinstantiated composed information handling systems generated using thecomposed system blueprint to determine whether the past states, currentstate, potential future states of previously instantiated composedinformation handling system indicate that the composed system blueprintrequires alteration to satisfy the composition intent. In other words,the telemetry data may indicate one or more issues (e.g., SLOs not beingmet or may potentially not be met, resource utilization thresholds beingreached or exceeded or potentially will be exceeded, etc.) that mayresult in the newly composed information handling system experiencingpoor performances, errors and/or failures. If the telemetry data and/orpredictive analytics indicates that the composed system blueprintrequires alteration to satisfy the composition request, then the systemcontrol processor manager may update the composed system blueprint(e.g., by scaling out and/or scaling up the resource requirements of theoriginal composed system blueprint).

The system control processor manager may use the telemetry data and/orpredictive analytics to identify a composed infrastructure that includesthe resources specified by the updated composed system blueprint thathave the required current and/or potential future capacity toinstantiate the composed information handling system to perform theworkflow. Due to the possibility of incompatibility with sharedresources of information handling systems between multiple composedinformation handling systems, the system control processor manager mayalso use the telemetry data to ensure that the resources of the composedinfrastructure that are executing workflows for other composedinformation handling systems are and potentially will be compatible withthe composed infrastructure and the workflow of the composition request.The telemetry data and predictive analytics may indicate any past,current and/or potential future incompatibility issues for previouslyinstantiated composed information handling systems. An example of anincompatibility between resources may include a noisy neighbor (e.g.,where another composed information handling system using a sharedresources monopolizes the resources), resource competition, etc. Thecomposed infrastructure may include at least one compute resource set,at least one hardware resource set, and at least one control resourceset. The system control processor manager may replace the originalcomposed system blueprint with the updated composed system blueprint.

If the telemetry data and the predictive analytics do not indicate thatan alteration to the composed system blueprint is required, then thesystem control processor may use the original composed system blueprintto identify the composed infrastructure. The system control processormanager may use the telemetry data to identify a composed infrastructurethat includes the resources specified by the original composed systemblueprint that have the required capacity to instantiate the composedinformation handling system to perform the workflow. Due to thepossibility of incompatibility with shared resources of informationhandling systems between multiple composed information handling systems,the system control processor manager may also use the telemetry data andpredictive analytics to ensure that the resources of the composedinfrastructure that are executing workflows for other composedinformation handling systems are and potentially will be compatible withthe composed infrastructure and the workflow of the composition request.The telemetry data and predictive analytics may indicate any past,current and/or potential future incompatibility issues for previouslyinstantiated composed information handling systems. An example of anincompatibility between resources may include a noisy neighbor (e.g.,where another composed information handling system using a sharedresources monopolizes the resources), resource competition, etc. Thecomposed infrastructure may include at least one compute resource set,at least one hardware resource set, and at least one control resourceset.

In step 510, telemetry services for the composed information handlingsystem are setup using at least one control resource set to obtainlogical hardware resources managed by the at least one control resourceset. The system control processor manager may instruct the at least onecontrol resource set to perform local telemetry services. To performlocal telemetry services, the system control processor manager mayinstantiate a telemetry collection manager (e.g., 320, FIG. 3 ) on theat least one control resource set. The system control processor managermay generate and/or obtain instructions and a device image forinstantiating a telemetry collection manager to perform telemetryservices for the composed information handling system. The systemcontrol processor manager may encapsulate the instructions and deviceimage in messages, and send the messages to one or more system controlprocessors of the at least one control resource set of the composedinformation handling systems. In response to receiving the message, thesystem control processors may implement the instructions therebyinstantiating the telemetry collection manager using the device image.The telemetry collection manager may be instantiated on the composedinformation handling system using other methods (e.g., performingfirst-time installations, copying binaries to storage and beginningexecution of the binaries, etc.) without departing from the invention.

Additional management services may also be set up. The additionalmanagement services may include, for example, virtualization, emulation,abstraction, indirection, duplicative writes, deduplication,compression, backup generation, and/or other type of services to meetthe requirements of data integrity, security, and/or management models.The control resource set may provide at least a portion of themanagement services to the at least one hardware resource set identifiedin step 506. For additional information regarding setting up telemetryservices for composed systems (i.e., also referred to as composedinformation handling systems herein), refer to FIG. 5.2 .

In step 512, a composed information handling system is instantiatedusing the composed infrastructure to service the composition request. Toinstantiate the composed information handling system, the system controlprocessor manager may instruct the system control processors of the atleast one control resource set to make the bare metal resources of thecomposed infrastructure discoverable. For example, the at least onecontrol resource set may send a bare metal communication to one or moreprocessors of the at least one compute resource set to cause theprocessors to discover the presence of the presented bare metalresources. By doing so, the processors may then begin to utilize thelogical hardware resources as bare metal resources resulting in acomposed information handling system having all of the resourcesnecessary to provide desired computer implemented services specified bythe composition request.

The method may end following step 512.

Using the method illustrated in FIG. 5.1 , a composed informationhandling system may be intelligently composed using a composed systemblueprint, telemetry data, and predictive analytics associated withpreviously generated composed information handling systems.

Following step 512 of FIG. 5.1 , no applications may be presentlyexecuting on the composed information handling system. The composedinformation handling systems may then be turned over to other entitiesfor management (e.g., orchestrators, managers, and/or controllers) ormay be additionally managed by the system control processor manager byinstructing the system control processors to load applications onto thecomposed information handling systems using any method without departingfrom the invention. For example, device images (e.g., data structuresincluding information that may be used to instantiate one or moreapplications in corresponding operating states) may be used to beginexecution of appropriate applications in desired states. By doing so,the composed information handling systems may begin to provide desiredcomputer implemented services. Applications may be instantiated on acomposed information handling system using other methods (e.g.,performing first-time installations, copying binaries to storage andbeginning execution of the binaries, etc.) without departing from theinvention.

Concurrently with or following the steps illustrated in FIG. 5.1 , thecomposed information handling system data (314, FIG. 3 ) and resourcemap (316, FIG. 3 ) may be updated to reflect that various resources havenow been allocated and are no longer available for allocation. Forexample, the resource map (316, FIG. 3 ) may be updated to indicate thatthe various hardware/virtualized devices being utilized to present baremetal resources to the composed information handling system are nowallocated and unavailable (at least in part if virtualized) forallocation to present bare metal resources to other composed informationhandling systems. The telemetry data map (412, FIG. 4 ), the composedinfrastructure map (416, FIG. 4 ), and the telemetry data repository(420, FIG. 4 ) maintained by the system control processor manager may besimilarly updated.

Turning to FIG. 5.2 , FIG. 5.2 shows a flowcharts of a method inaccordance with one or more embodiments of the invention. The method ofFIG. 5.2 may be performed to set up telemetry services in accordancewith one or more embodiments of the invention. The method shown in FIG.5.2 may be performed by, for example, a system control processor manager(e.g., 50, FIG. 1.1 ). Other components of the system in FIG. 1.1 mayperform all, or a portion, of the methods of FIG. 5.2 without departingfrom the invention.

While FIG. 5.2 is illustrated as a series of steps, any of the steps maybe omitted, performed in a different order, additional steps may beincluded, and/or any or all of the steps may be performed in a paralleland/or partially overlapping manner without departing from theinvention.

In step 510, a transaction identifier associated with the composedinformation handling system is generated. A transaction identifier maybe a unique combination of bits or characters (e.g., alphanumericcharacters) that are associated with a composed information handlingsystem. The transaction identifier may be of any size or length withoutdeparting from the invention. The system control processor manager maygenerate a random transaction identifier. Alternatively, the systemcontrol processor manager may generate the transaction identifier basedon the composition request. As an example, the system control processormanager may use a transaction identifier provided by the user, generatea transaction identifier based on the composition request (e.g., basedon the workflow), or may generate transaction identifiers sequentially(e.g., assign a numerical value where the current transaction identifieris a numerical value that is higher or lower than a previously generatedtransaction identifier). The system control processor manager may notgenerate a previously generated transaction identifier. The transactionidentifier associated with the composed information handling system maybe generated via other and/or additional methods without departing fromthe invention.

In step 512, hardware resource tags associated with the at least onehardware resource set are generated. A hardware resource tag may be aunique keyword, a unique combination of bits, and/or a uniquecombination of characters (e.g., alphanumeric characters associated witha hardware resource of the at least one hardware resource set. Ahardware resource tag may be generated for each hardware resource of theat least one hardware resource. The hardware resource tags may includeany size or length without departing from the invention. The hardwareresource tags may be generated using any appropriate method of taggeneration without departing from the invention. For example, thehardware resource tags may be generated randomly, sequentially, based onhardware resource types (e.g., one type storage device may be assigned adifferent type of hardware resource tag compared to another type ofstorage device), etc. Hardware resource tags associated with the atleast one hardware resource set may be generated via other and/oradditional methods without departing from the invention.

In step 514, compute resource tags associated with the at least onecompute resource set are generated. A compute resource tag may be aunique keyword, a unique combination of bits, and/or a uniquecombination of characters (e.g., alphanumeric characters associated witha compute resource of the at least one compute resource set. A computeresource tag may be generated for each compute resource of the at leastone compute resource. The compute resource tags may include any size orlength without departing from the invention. The compute resource tagsmay be generated using any appropriate method of tag generation withoutdeparting from the invention. For example, the compute resource tags maybe generated randomly, sequentially, based on compute resource types(e.g., CPUs may be assigned a different type of compute resource tagcompared to GPUs), etc. Compute resource tags associated with the atleast one compute resource set may be generated via other and/oradditional methods without departing from the invention.

In step 516, telemetry policies associated with the composed informationhandling system are identified. As discussed above, the telemetry policyrepository may include entries associated with each composition intent.Each interception and auditing intent entry may include one or moretelemetry policies associated with the composition request. The systemcontrol processor manager may match the composition intent included inthe composition request with a composition intent entry included in thetelemetry policy repository. The system control processor manager mayidentify the one or more telemetry policies included in thecorresponding composition intent entry as telemetry policies associatedwith the composed information handling system. Alternatively, or incombination with the above method for identifying telemetry policiesassociated with the composed information handling system, the user thatsubmitted the composition request may include one or more telemetrypolicies in the composition request. The system control processormanager may parse the composition request and identify any telemetryintents included in the composition requests as telemetry policiesassociated with the composed information handling system. Telemetrypolicies associated with the composed information handling system may beidentified via other and/or additional methods without departing fromthe invention.

In step 518, data collectors are instantiated to collect telemetry data.The system control processor manager may generate and/or obtaininstructions and a device image for instantiating one or more datacollectors to generate, obtain, and/or maintain telemetry dataassociated with the composed information handling system. The systemcontrol processor manager may encapsulate the instructions and deviceimage in messages, and send the messages to one or more system controlprocessors of the at least one control resource set of the composedinformation handling systems. In response to receiving the message, thesystem control processors may implement the instructions therebyinstantiating the data collectors using the device image. Datacollectors may be instantiated on the composed information handlingsystem using other methods (e.g., performing first-time installations,copying binaries to storage and beginning execution of the binaries,etc.) without departing from the invention.

For composition requests associated with a re-composition of previouslygenerated composed information handling systems, the system controlprocessor manager may: (i) instantiate additional data collectors, (ii)remove previously instantiated data collectors, and/or (iii) modify theoperation of previously instantiated data collectors. A re-compositionmay refer to adding, removing, and/or modifying components to/from/of apreviously generated composed information handling system. The datacollectors may be instantiated to perform a portion of the telemetryservices to satisfy the one or more telemetry policies. Data collectorsassociated with the composed information handling system may beinstantiated via other and/or additional methods without departing fromthe invention.

In step 520, a telemetry data map entry that associates the transactionidentifier, the hardware resource tags, the compute resource tags, thetelemetry policies, and the data collectors is generated. In one or moreembodiments of the invention, the system control processor managergenerates the telemetry data map entry by adding a new entry to thetelemetry data map. The system control processor manager may include thetransaction identifier, the hardware resource tags, the compute resourcetags, the telemetry policies and data collector information associatedwith the data collectors of the composed information handling system.The system control processor manager may provide the transactionidentifier to the user that submitted the composition request to enablethe user to submit telemetry requests associated with the composedinformation handling system. As a result, the telemetry data map entrymay be used to map the physical and logical components of the composedinformation handling system. The system control processor manager maygenerate mappings included in the telemetry data map entry using anyappropriate method of associated physical and logical components ofcomposed information handling system (e.g., graphs, subgraphs, etc.).The telemetry data map entry that associates the transaction identifier,the hardware resource tags, the compute resource tags, the telemetrypolicies, and the data collectors may be generated via other and/oradditional methods without departing from the invention. The mappingsincluded in the telemetry data map entry may be used to track, create,aggregate, perform complex queries of, analyze, store, and/or maintaintelemetry data associated with the composed information handling systemusing the telemetry data map. The system control processor manager mayalso include the group identifier included in the composition request inthe new group entry. If the composition request did not include a groupidentifier, then the system control processor may generate a new groupidentifier and include the new group identifier in the new group entry.

In Step 522, the performance of telemetry services based on thetelemetry data map is initiated. The system control processor managermay send a message to one or more system control processor of the atleast one control resource set of the composed information handlingsystem. The message may include a request to perform the telemetryservices. The message may further include a copy of the telemetry datamap. In response to obtaining the message, the system control processorsmay begin to perform telemetry services for the composed informationhandling system. The system control processor may also instruct the datacollector to begin generating and/or obtaining telemetry data. Astelemetry data is generated and/or obtained, the data collectors and/orthe system control processors may tag the telemetry data with thetransaction identifier and the corresponding hardware resource tagsand/or compute resource tags using the copy of the telemetry data mapentry. As part of performing the telemetry services, the system controlprocessors and/or the data collectors may also use the copy of thetelemetry data map entry to track, create, aggregate, perform complexqueries of, analyze, store, and/or maintain telemetry data associatedwith the composed information handling system. The system controlprocessors and/or the data collectors may also provide telemetry data tothe system control processor manager for further aggregation, analysis,maintenance, querying, etc. The performance of telemetry services basedon the telemetry data map may be initiated via other and/or additionalmethods without departing from the invention.

In one or more embodiments of the invention, the method ends followingstep 522.

Using the method illustrated in FIG. 5.2 , telemetry services may be setup for a composed information handling system. As a result, telemetryservices for composed information handling systems may be provided for acomposed information handling system based on a telemetry data map thatmay be used to maintain the physical to logical mappings of the composedinformation handling system. The telemetry data map may enable thesystem control processor manager, system control processors, and/or thedata collectors to efficiently collect, track, analyze, aggregate,perform complex queries of, store and/or maintain telemetry dataassociated with each component of the composed information handlingsystem for the entire lifecycle of the composed information handlingsystem.

Turning to FIG. 5.3 , FIG. 5.3 shows a flowcharts of a method inaccordance with one or more embodiments of the invention. The method ofFIG. 5.3 may be performed to perform telemetry services in accordancewith one or more embodiments of the invention. The method shown in FIG.5.3 may be performed by, for example, a system control processor manager(e.g., 50, FIG. 1.1 ). Other components of the system in FIG. 1.1 andFIG. 1.2 may perform all, or a portion, of the methods of FIG. 5.3without departing from the invention.

While FIG. 5.3 is illustrated as a series of steps, any of the steps maybe omitted, performed in a different order, additional steps may beincluded, and/or any or all of the steps may be performed in a paralleland/or partially overlapping manner without departing from theinvention.

In step 530, a telemetry request associated with predictive analytics isobtained. The collection of the telemetry request may be identified as atelemetry collection event. The telemetry request may be obtained usingany method without departing from the invention. For example, thetelemetry request may be obtained as part of a message from anotherentity operatively connected to a system control processor manager(e.g., a client operated by a user). In another example, the telemetryrequest may be locally stored in a storage of a system control processormanager by a user.

The telemetry request may be a data structure (e.g., a manifest)specifying that one or more telemetry services is to be performed. Thetelemetry request may include a user identifier associated with the userthat submitted the telemetry request, a group identifier associated withthe group of users that includes the user for which may receive thetelemetry data, and a transaction identifier associated with thecomposed information handling system for which the telemetry servicesare to be performed. The user identifiers may be used by the systemcontrol processor manager to identify the user that submitted thetelemetry request. The telemetry request may further include a telemetryintent specifying the telemetry services to be performed. The telemetryintent may specify that telemetry data is to be used to generatepredictive analytics. The telemetry request may include other and/oradditional information usable to manage telemetry services for composedinformation handling systems without departing from the invention.

In step 532, a transaction identifier associated with the telemetryrequest is identified. As discussed above, the user that submitted thetelemetry request may include the transaction identifier associated withthe composed information handling system in the telemetry request.Consequently, the system control processor manager may parse thetelemetry request to identify the transaction identifier. Thetransaction identifier associated with the telemetry request may beidentified via other and/or additional methods without departing fromthe invention.

In step 534, a telemetry intent associated with the telemetry request isidentified. As discussed above, the telemetry request may include atelemetry intent. The telemetry intent may specify a desired outcomeassociated with a portion of the composed information handling systemwithout specifying particular actions to be taken and/or data to becollected. The portion of the composed information handling systemspecified by the telemetry intent may include, for example, one or morecomponents of the composed information handling system, one or moreworkloads performed by the composed information handling system, one ormore applications and/or services executing on the composed informationhandling systems, and/or additional portions of the composed informationhandling system without departing from the invention. The telemetryintent may further specify a telemetry schedule for specifying when toprovide telemetry data to the user or group and one or more triggerevents. Trigger events may refer to one or more events (e.g., exceedingof performance thresholds, component failures, etc.), that when suchevents occur, trigger the collection and transmission of telemetry data.The desired outcome may be, for example, provide telemetry data for allnetwork devices, provide telemetry data collected in the past week ofstorage devices upon storage device failures, provide a performanceupdate on an application executing on the composed information handlingsystem, and/or other types of desired outcomes associated with telemetrywithout departing from the invention. In other words, the telemetryrequest may specify a desired outcome without specifying the resourcesthat are to be used to satisfy the request and the methods forperforming telemetry services to satisfy the desired outcomes to satisfythe desired outcome.

The system control processor manager may parse the telemetry request toidentify the telemetry intent. The system control processor manager mayinclude or otherwise have access to (e.g., stored in storage of thesystem control processor manager) a list of telemetry intents and maycompare the telemetry intent included in the telemetry request with thelist of telemetry intents to identify the telemetry intent associatedwith the telemetry request. The telemetry intent associated with thetelemetry request may be identified via other and/or additional methodswithout departing from the invention.

In step 536, telemetry data is aggregated based on the telemetry intentand a telemetry data map entry associated with the transactionidentifier to obtain aggregated telemetry data. As discussed above, thetelemetry data map may include a telemetry data map entry associatedwith the composed information handling system targeted by the telemetryrequest. The system control processor manager may use the transactionidentifier to identify the telemetry data map entry by comparing thetransaction identifier included in the telemetry request with thetransaction identifiers included in the telemetry data map. The systemcontrol processor manager may identify the telemetry data map entry withthe transaction identifier that matches the transaction identifierincluded in the telemetry request as the telemetry data map entryassociated with the transaction identifier. As discussed above, thetelemetry intent may be associated with a portion of the composedinformation handling system.

The system control processor may use the telemetry data map entry toidentify hardware resource tags and/or compute resource tags associatedwith the telemetry intent. The system control processor manager mayobtain the telemetry data associated with the hardware resource tagsand/or compute resource tags from the telemetry data repository or mayrequest and obtain the telemetry data associated with the hardwareresource tags and/or compute resource tags from the system controlprocessors and/or data collectors of the composed information handlingsystem. After obtaining all the telemetry data required to satisfy thetelemetry intent, the system control processor manager may compose thetelemetry data into a single collection of aggregated telemetry data. Asa result, only the telemetry data required to satisfy the telemetryintent may be included in the aggregated telemetry data.

In step 538, predictive analytics are generated using the aggregatedtelemetry data. The system control processor manager may apply one ormore predictive analytics models to the aggregated telemetry data togenerate the predictive analytics. The predictive analytics models mayinclude any appropriate mathematical models that may be used to generatepredictions of future telemetry data values using the aggregatedtelemetry data without departing from the invention. The predictiveanalytics models may include, for example, time series forecastingmodels, neural networks, etc. The system control processor manager maytag the predictive analytics with the appropriate transactionidentifier, hardware resource tags, and/or compute resource tags.Predictive analytics may be generated using the aggregated telemetrydata via other and/or additional methods without departing from theinvention.

In step 540, a determination is made as to whether the predictiveanalytics indicate a composed blueprint update is required. Followingthe generation of the predictive analytics, the system control processormanager may check the predictive analytics associated with the composedinformation handling systems predicted future telemetry data indicatesthat the composed system blueprint used to instantiate the composedinformation handling system requires alteration to satisfy thecorresponding composition intent. In other words, the predictiveanalytics may indicate one or more predicted future issues (e.g., futureSLOs not met, future resource utilization thresholds being exceeded,future resource neighbor incompatibility issues, etc.) that may resultin the composed information handling system associated with thepredictive analytics experiencing poor performances, errors and/orfailures. In one or more embodiments of the invention, if the predictiveanalytics indicate that the composed system blueprint requiresalteration to satisfy the composition request and perform the workflow,then the system control processor manager may determine that a composedsystem blueprint update is required. In one or more embodiments of theinvention, if the predictive analytics do not indicate that the composedsystem blueprint requires alteration to satisfy the composition requestand perform the workflow, then the system control processor manager maydetermine that a composed system blueprint update is not required. Thedetermination as to whether a composed system blueprint update isrequired may be made via other and/or additional methods withoutdeparting from the invention.

In one or more embodiments of the invention, if it is determined that acomposed system blueprint update is required, then the method proceedsto step 542. In one or more embodiments of the invention, if it isdetermined that a composed system blueprint update is not required, thenthe method proceeds to step 544.

In step 542, the composed system blueprint associated with thetransaction identifier is updated based on the predictive analytics. Inone or more embodiments of the invention, the telemetry data map entryincludes the composed system blueprint identifier associated with thecomposed system blueprint used to instantiate the composed informationhandling system associated with the telemetry data map entry. The systemcontrol processor may use the composed system blueprint identifier toidentify the composed system blueprint in the outcome based computingresource requirements lookup table. The system control processor managermay update the composed system blueprint by scaling up and/or scalingout the resource requirements specified by the composed systemblueprint. Alternatively, the system control processor manager maynotify a user (e.g., a system administrator) that the composed systemblueprint requires an update. The system control processor manager mayalso provide the predictive analytics to the user. In response toreceiving the notification, the user may update the composed systemblueprint based on the predictive analytics. The composed systemblueprint associated with the transaction identifier may be updatedbased on the predictive analytics via other and/or additional methodswithout departing from the invention.

In step 544, a determination is made as to whether the predictiveanalytics indicate a re-composition is required. Following thegeneration of the predictive analytics, the system control processormanager may check whether the predictive analytics associated with thecomposed information handling systems predicted future telemetry dataindicates that the composed information handling system requirere-composition to satisfy the corresponding composition intent. In otherwords, the predictive analytics may indicate one or more predictedfuture issues (e.g., future SLOs not met, future resource utilizationthresholds being exceeded, future resource neighbor incompatibilityissues, etc.) that may result in the composed information handlingsystem experiencing future poor performances, future errors and/orfuture failures.

The system control processor may include or otherwise have access to aconfigurable future error and failure limit, which may specify a numberof errors and/or failures of the composed information handling systemand/or the components of the composed information handling system. Inone or more embodiments of the invention, if the predictive analyticsindicate a number of future errors and/or failures that is above theconfigurable future error and failure limit, then the system controlprocessor manager may determine that a re-composition of the composedinformation handling system is required. In one or more embodiments ofthe invention, if the predictive analytics indicate a number of futureerrors and/or failures that is not above the configurable future errorand failure limit, then the system control processor manager maydetermine that a re-composition of the composed information handlingsystem is not required. The determination as to whether the predictiveanalytics indicate a re-composition is required may be made via otherand/or additional methods without departing from the invention.

In step 546, a re-composition based on the predictive analytics isinitiated. The system control processor manager may initiate theperformance of the methods of FIGS. 5.1 and 5.2 to re-compose thecomposed information handling system to avoid the predicted futureissues as indicated by the predictive analytics. The system controlprocessor may generate a composition request associated with thecomposed information handling system. The predictive analytics will betaken into account during the re-composition of the composed informationhandling system. For additional information regarding instantiatingcomposed information handling systems, refer to FIGS. 5.1 - 5.2 . There-composition based on the predictive analytics may be initiated viaother and/or additional methods without departing from the invention.

In step 548, the predictive analytics repository may be updated based onthe predictive analytics. If the composed information handling system isassociated with a predictive analytics repository entry, then the systemcontrol processor manager may update the predictive analytics repositoryentry to include the predictive analytics. If the composed informationhandling system is not associated with a predictive analytics repositoryentry, then the system control processor manager may update thepredictive analytics repository to include a new predictive analyticsrepository entry associated with the composed information handlingsystem. The system control processor may include the transactionidentifier associated with the composed information handling system andthe predictive analytics in the new predictive analytics repositoryentry.

If the aggregated telemetry data and/or the predictive analytics are tobe provided to the user that submitted the telemetry request to completethe services specified by the telemetry request, then the aggregatedtelemetry data and the predictive analytics may be provided to the userusing any appropriate method of data transmission without departing fromthe invention. As an example, the aggregated telemetry data andpredictive analytics may be sent as part of a message of packets acrossa network through one or more network devices that operatively connectthe user to the system control processor manager.

In scenarios in which the user is part of a group, the system controlprocessor manager may provide the aggregated telemetry data andpredictive analytics to all users included in the group. As discussedabove, the telemetry request may include the group identifier associatedwith the group of users that includes the user that submitted thetelemetry request. The system control processor manager may identify thegroup entry of the telemetry distribution information associated withthe group using the group identifier. The system control processormanager may identify the current group encryption key include in thegroup entry of the telemetry distribution information. The systemcontrol processor manager may encrypt the aggregated telemetry data andpredictive analytics using the current group encryption key and anyappropriate method of encryption without departing from the invention.The aggregated telemetry data and predictive analytics may be encryptedbased on the telemetry distribution information associated with thegroup and the composed information handling system via other and/oradditional methods without departing from the invention.

The system control processor manager may send the encrypted aggregatedtelemetry data and predictive analytics to each user in the group as astream, broadcast, or multicast using any appropriate method oftransmitting the aggregated telemetry data and predictive analytics onceto multiple users. As a result, only users with the current groupencryption key (i.e., users of the group) may decrypt the encryptedaggregated telemetry data and predictive analytics and use theaggregated telemetry data and predictive analytics for furtherprocessing and analysis (e.g., component failure predictions, healthassessments, etc.). The encrypted aggregated telemetry data andpredictive analytics may be provided to the group via other and/oradditional methods without departing from the invention.

In one or more embodiments of the invention, the system control processmanager may repeat steps 536 through 548 one or more times based on aschedule and/or trigger events specified by the telemetry request tosatisfy the telemetry intent provided by the user.

In one or more embodiments of the invention, the method ends followingstep 548.

Using the method illustrated in FIG. 5.3 , telemetry services may beperformed by one or more system control processor managers for composedinformation handling systems. As a result, a user may submit a telemetryrequest with a telemetry intent associated with predictive analytics. Inresponse to obtaining the telemetry intent, the system control processormanager may use a telemetry data map entry to collect and aggregate onlythe telemetry data of the composed information handling system. One ormore predictive analytics models may be applied to the aggregatedtelemetry data to generate predictive analytics. The predictiveanalytics may be used to update composed system blueprints andre-compose composed information handling systems. Therefore, telemetryservices for composed information handling systems may be efficientlyperformed to optimize the composition of composed information handlingsystems.

To further clarify embodiments of the invention, a non-limiting exampleis provided in FIGS. 6.1 - 6.3 . FIGS. 6.1 - 6.3 show a system similarto that illustrated in FIG. 1.1 . For the sake of brevity, only alimited number of components of the system of FIG. 1.1 are illustratedin FIGS. 6.1 - 6.3 .

EXAMPLE

Consider a scenario as illustrated in FIG. 6.1 in which a system controlprocessor manager (600) is providing composition services and telemetryservices for two information handling systems (IHS), IHS A (610) and IHSB (630). IHS (610) includes compute resource set A (612), system controlprocessor A (614), and solid state disk A (616). IHS B (630) includescompute resource set B (632), system control processor B (634), andsolid state disk B (636).

At a first point in time, an employee of a company with five otheremployees submits, through a client of the clients (602), a compositionrequest to instantiate a composed information handling system to host adatabase application and to provide telemetry services associated withpredictive analytics. The composition request includes the useridentifiers associated with all six employees of the company. Thecomposition request may be submitted to the system control processormanager (600).

In response to obtaining the composition request, the system controlprocessor manager (600) identifies the resources necessary toinstantiate a composed information handling system to host the databaseapplication using a composed system blueprint associated with theintent. The system control processor manager (600) determines that thereis no predictive analytics associated with previously generated composedinformation handling system for hosting a database application. Inresponse to the determination, the system control processor manager(600) identifies a composed infrastructure using the composed systemblueprint. The resources specified by the composed system blueprintinclude a compute resource set, a system control processor, and twoterabytes of storage that can be presented as virtual storage devices.The system control processor manager (600) uses telemetry dataassociated with IHS A (610) to determine that IHS A (610) includes thenecessary capacity to instantiate the composed system. The systemcontrol processor manager (600) also uses the telemetry data to confirmthat no other composed information handling system is using theresources of IHS A (610) so there are currently no incompatibilityissues. The system control processor manager then identifies thatcompute resource set A (612), system control processor A (614), and oneterabyte of solid state disk A (616) of IHS A (610) are to be used toinstantiate the composed information handling system.

Turning to FIG. 6.2 , the system control processor manager (600) theninstruct system control processor A (614) to instantiate the composedinformation handling system using the composed infrastructure asspecified by the composed system blueprint. As a result, system controlprocessor A (614) generates storage resource A (620) by virtualizing afirst portion including one terabyte of solid state disk A (616) andstorage resource B (622) by virtualizing second portion of solid statedisk A (616) including one terabyte.

The system control processor manager (600) then generates a transactionidentifier associated with the composed information handling system.After generating the transaction identifier, the system controlprocessor manager (600) generates hardware resource tags. The systemcontrol processor manager generates one hardware resource tag associatedwith solid state disk A (616). The system control processor manager(600) may further generate hardware resource tags associated withstorage resource A (620) and storage resource B (622). The systemcontrol processor manager (600) then associated the storage resource A(620) tag and the storage resource B (622) tag with the solid state diskA (616) tag. After generating the hardware resource tags, the systemcontrol processor manager (600) generates a compute resource tagassociated with compute resource set A (612), which includes a CPU coreand memory.

The system control processor manager (600) then identifies two telemetrypolicies associated with the composed information handling system. Thefirst telemetry policy is associated with compute resource set A (612)and the other telemetry policy is associated with the solid state disk A(616). The system control processor manager next instructs systemcontrol processor A (614) to instantiate data collector A (624) togenerate, obtain, and/or maintain telemetry data for compute resourceset A (612), system control processor A (624), storage resource A (620),storage resource B (622), and solid state disk A (616) of IHS A (610).

The system control processor manager (600) then generates a telemetrydata map entry that associates the transaction identifier, the hardwareresource tags, the compute resource tag, the telemetry policies, and thedata collector information associated with data collector A (624) of thecomposed information handling system. The system control processormanager (600) then initiates the performance of telemetry services usingtelemetry data map. The system control processor manager (600) theninstructs system control processor A (614) to instantiate the databaseapplication on compute resource set A (612) and the composed informationhandling system begins providing database services for the user toservice the composition request.

At some point in time after the composed information handling system wasinstantiated, the user desires to obtain predictive analytics for thecomposed information handling system associated with the storagedevices. Therefore, the user submits, on behalf of the other employeesof the company, a telemetry request to the system control processormanager (600) through a client of the clients (602). In response toobtaining the telemetry request, the system control processor manager(600) identifies that the transaction identifier associated with thetelemetry request. After that, the system control processor identifiesthat the telemetry intent associated with the telemetry request is toprovide an update of the health of the storage devices of the composedinformation handling system. The system control processor manager (600)uses the telemetry data map entry to identify the hardware resource tagsincluded in the telemetry data map. As discussed above, the hardwareresource tags include a solid state disk A (616) tag, a storage resourceA (620) tag, and a storage resource B (622) tag. The system controlprocessor then requests system control processor A (614) to provide alltelemetry data associated with the hardware resource tags. Systemcontrol processor A (614, 634) then obtains the requested telemetry datafrom data collector A (624) and provides the requested telemetry data tothe system control processor manager (600).

After collecting the necessary telemetry data to satisfy the telemetryintent of the telemetry request using the hardware resource tagsincluded in the telemetry data map, the system control processor manager(600) composes the telemetry data into a single collection of aggregatedtelemetry data that provides a comprehensive view of the health of thehardware resources of the composed information handling system. Thesystem control processor manager (600) then applies a predictiveanalytics model to the aggregated data to obtain predictive analyticsassociated with the composed information handling system. In response togenerating the predictive analytics, the system control processormanager (600) checks the predictive analytics. The predictive analyticsindicate that the storage capacity of solid state disk assigned to thecomposed information will not be sufficient in the near future as a newcomposed information handling system is scheduled to be generated thatwill consuming a portion of the storage capacity of solid state disk A(614). The predictive analytics indicates that multiple I/O errors willoccur after the new composed information handling system isinstantiated. Based on the predictive analytics, the system controlprocessor manager decides to perform a re-composition of the composedinformation handling system.

In response to determining to re-compose the composed informationhandling system, the system control processor identifies the resourcesnecessary to instantiate a composed information handling system to hostthe database application using a composed system blueprint associatedwith the intent. The system control processor manager (600) determinesthat, based on the predictive analytics, the composed informationhandling system needs additional storage. In response to thedetermination, the system control processor manager (600) identifies acomposed infrastructure using the composed system blueprint. Theresources specified by the composed system blueprint include a computeresource set, two system control processors, and two terabytes ofstorage that can be presented as virtual storage devices. The systemcontrol processor manager (600) uses telemetry data associated with IHSA (610) to determine that both IHS A (610) and IHS B (630) include thenecessary capacity to instantiate the composed system. The systemcontrol processor manager (600) also uses the telemetry data to confirmthat the new composed information handling system is using the resourcesof IHS A (610) will not result in incompatibility issues. The systemcontrol processor manager then identifies compute resource set A (612),system control processor A (614), and one terabyte of solid state disk A(616) of IHS A (610), and system control processor B (634) and oneterabyte of solid state disk B (636) of IHS B to be used to re-composethe composed information handling system.

Turning to FIG. 6.3 , the system control processor manager (600) theninstructs system control processor A (614) and system control processorB (634) to instantiate the composed information handling system usingthe identified resources. As a result, system control processor A (614)generates storage resource A (620) by virtualizing a first portionincluding half a terabyte of solid state disk A (616) and storageresource B (622) by virtualizing second portion of solid state disk A(616) including half terabyte. Similarly, system control processor B(634) generates storage resource C (640) by virtualizing a portion ofsolid state disk B (636) including half a terabyte and storage resourceD (642) by virtualizing a portion of solid state disk B (636) includinghalf a terabyte.

The system control processor manager (600) then identifies the telemetrydata map entry associated with the transaction identifier of there-composed information handling system. The system control processormanager (600) then generates one hardware resource tag associated withsolid state disk A (616) and one hardware resource tag associated withsolid state disk B (636). The system control processor manager (600) mayfurther generate hardware resource tags associated with storage resourceA (620), storage resource B (622), storage resource C (640), and storageresource D (642). The system control processor manager (600) thenassociated the storage resource A (620) tag and the storage resource B(622) tag with the solid state disk A (616) tag. Similarly, the systemcontrol processor manager (600) associates the solid state disk B (636)tag with the storage resource C (640) tag and the storage resource D(642) tag. After generating the hardware resource tags, the systemcontrol processor manager (600) generates a compute resource tagassociated with compute resource set A (612) which includes a CPU coreand memory.

The system control processor manager (600) then identifies two telemetrypolicies associated with the composed information handling system. Thefirst telemetry policy is associated with compute resource set A (612)and the other telemetry policy is associated with the solid state disks(616, 636). The system control processor manager next instructs systemcontrol processor A (614) to instantiate data collector A (624) togenerate, obtain, and/or maintain telemetry data for compute resourceset A (612), system control processor A (624), storage resource A (620),storage resource B (622) and solid state disk A (616) of IHS A (610).The system control processor manager (600) also instructs system controlprocessor B (634) to instantiate data collector B (644) to generate,obtain, and/or maintain telemetry data for system control processor B(634), storage resource C (640), storage resource D (642) and solidstate disk B (636) of IHS B (630).

The system control processor manager (600) then generates a telemetrydata map entry that associates the transaction identifier, the hardwareresource tags, the compute resource tag, the telemetry policies, and thedata collector information associated with the data collectors (624,644) of the composed information handling system. The system controlprocessor manager (600) then initiates the performance of telemetryservices using telemetry data map. The system control processor manager(600) then instructs system control processor A (614) to instantiate thedatabase application on compute resource set A (612) and the re-composedinformation handling system begins providing database services for theuser to service the re-composition request.

After re-composing the composed information handling system, thenecessary telemetry data and predictive analytics to satisfy thetelemetry intent of the telemetry request, the system control processormanager (600) then provides the aggregated telemetry data and thepredictive analytics to user for further processing and analysis.

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Thus, as illustrated in FIGS. 6.1 - 6.3 , embodiments of the inventionmay provide a system that enables the optimization of compositions ofcomposed information handling systems using telemetry data to generatepredictive analytics.

As discussed above, embodiments of the invention may be implementedusing computing devices. FIG. 7 shows a diagram of a computing device inaccordance with one or more embodiments of the invention. The computingdevice (700) may include one or more computer processors (702),non-persistent storage (704) (e.g., volatile memory, such as randomaccess memory (RAM), cache memory), persistent storage (706) (e.g., ahard disk, an optical drive such as a compact disk (CD) drive or digitalversatile disk (DVD) drive, a flash memory, etc.), a communicationinterface (712) (e.g., Bluetooth interface, infrared interface, networkinterface, optical interface, etc.), input devices (710), output devices(708), and numerous other elements (not shown) and functionalities. Eachof these components is described below.

In one embodiment of the invention, the computer processor(s) (702) maybe an integrated circuit for processing instructions. For example, thecomputer processor(s) may be one or more cores or micro-cores of aprocessor. The computing device (700) may also include one or more inputdevices (710), such as a touchscreen, keyboard, mouse, microphone,touchpad, electronic pen, or any other type of input device. Further,the communication interface (712) may include an integrated circuit forconnecting the computing device (700) to a network (not shown) (e.g., alocal area network (LAN), a wide area network (WAN) such as theInternet, mobile network, or any other type of network) and/or toanother device, such as another computing device.

In one embodiment of the invention, the computing device (700) mayinclude one or more output devices (708), such as a screen (e.g., aliquid crystal display (LCD), a plasma display, touchscreen, cathode raytube (CRT) monitor, projector, or other display device), a printer,external storage, or any other output device. One or more of the outputdevices may be the same or different from the input device(s). The inputand output device(s) may be locally or remotely connected to thecomputer processor(s) (702), non-persistent storage (704), andpersistent storage (706). Many different types of computing devicesexist, and the aforementioned input and output device(s) may take otherforms.

Embodiments of the invention may provide a system and method forperforming telemetry services for composed information handling systems.Specifically, embodiments of the invention may enable users associatedwith a group to submit composition requests associated with telemetryservices, provide a system control processor manager that may compose ancompose information handling system to with telemetry service usingtelemetry data and predictive analytics to optimize the composition ofcomposed information handling system. As a result, a user of thecomposed information handling system may submit a telemetry requestassociated with predictive analytics to the system control processormanager. The system control processor manager may aggregate telemetrydata from data collectors and/or system control processors of thecomposed information handling system to generate predictive analytics tosatisfy the telemetry intent. Consequently, the telemetry data and thepredictive analytics may be used to update composed system blueprintsand improve the composition of future composed information handlingsystems as well as dynamically re-compose composed information handlingsystems based on future predicted issues using the predictive analytics.

Thus, embodiments of the invention may address the problem of theinefficient use of composed information handling systems to performtelemetry services. The composed information handling systems mayleverage telemetry data maps to generate, track and maintain telemetrydata that may be used to generate predictive analytics. Therefore, thetelemetry data and the predictive analytics may enable the systemcontrol processor manager to optimize the composition of composedinformation handling systems based on past states, current states,and/or futures states of similar composed information handling systems.

The problems discussed above should be understood as being examples ofproblems solved by embodiments of the invention of the invention and theinvention should not be limited to solving the same/similar problems.The disclosed invention is broadly applicable to address a range ofproblems beyond those discussed herein.

One or more embodiments of the invention may be implemented usinginstructions executed by one or more processors of a computing device.Further, such instructions may correspond to computer readableinstructions that are stored on one or more non-transitory computerreadable mediums.

While the invention has been described above with respect to a limitednumber of embodiments, those skilled in the art, having the benefit ofthis disclosure, will appreciate that other embodiments can be devisedwhich do not depart from the scope of the invention as of the invention.Accordingly, the scope of the invention should be limited only by theattached claims.

What is claimed is:
 1. A method for managing composed informationhandling systems, comprising: obtaining, by a system control processormanager, a composition request for a composed information handlingsystem to perform a workflow; in response to obtaining the compositionrequest: identifying a composed system blueprint associated with theworkflow; making a first determination that there are first predictiveanalytics associated with the composed system blueprint; in response tothe first determination: identifying a composed infrastructureassociated with the composed system blueprint capable of performing theworkflow based on telemetry data and the first predictive analytics;instantiating a composed information handling system using the composedinfrastructure to service the composition request; and setting uptelemetry services for the composed information handling system using anat least one control resource set.
 2. The method of claim 1, wherein thefirst predictive analytics specify potential future states of othercomposed information handling systems instantiated using the composedsystem blueprint.
 3. The method of claim 2, wherein the telemetry dataspecifies current and past states of the other composed informationhandling systems.
 4. The method of claim 1, wherein setting up thetelemetry services for the composed information handling systemcomprises: generating a transaction identifier associated with thecomposed information handling system; generating hardware resource tagsassociated with at least one hardware resource set of the composedinformation handling system; generating compute resource tags associatedwith the least one compute resource set of the composed informationhandling system; instantiating data collectors associated with thecomposed information handling system; identifying telemetry policiesassociated with the composed information handling system; generating atelemetry data map entry that associates the transaction identifier, thehardware resource tags, the compute resource tags, the telemetrypolicies, and the data collectors; and initiating performance oftelemetry services based on the telemetry data map entry.
 5. The methodof claim 4, further comprising: after instantiating the composedinformation handling system using the composed infrastructure to servicethe composition request: identifying, by a system control processormanager, a telemetry collection event; in response to obtaining thetelemetry collection event: identifying a transaction identifierassociated with the composed information handling system; identifyingtelemetry intent associated with the telemetry collection event;aggregating telemetry data based on the telemetry intent and a telemetrydata map entry associated with the transaction identifier to obtainaggregated telemetry data; generating second predictive analytics usingthe aggregated telemetry data; making a second determination that thesecond predictive analytics indicate a composed system blueprint updateis required; and in response to the second determination: updating thecomposed system blueprint based on the second predictive analytics; andupdating a predictive analytics repository using the second predictiveanalytics.
 6. The method of claim 5, wherein the second predictiveanalytics specify a predicted future state associated with the composedinformation handling system.
 7. The method of claim 5, wherein thetelemetry intent is associated with a portion of the hardware resourcetags.
 8. The method of claim 7, wherein aggregating telemetry data basedon the telemetry intent comprises identifying a portion of the telemetrydata associated with the portion of the hardware resource tags.
 9. Themethod of claim 8, wherein the aggregated telemetry data comprises theportion of the telemetry data.
 10. A non-transitory computer readablemedium comprising computer readable program code, which when executed bya computer processor enables the computer processor to perform a methodfor managing composed information handling systems, the methodcomprising: obtaining, by a system control processor manager, acomposition request for a composed information handling system toperform a workflow; in response to obtaining the composition request:identifying a composed system blueprint associated with the workflow;making a first determination that there are first predictive analyticsassociated with the composed system blueprint; in response to the firstdetermination: identifying a composed infrastructure associated with thecomposed system blueprint capable of performing the workflow based ontelemetry data and the first predictive analytics; instantiating acomposed information handling system using the composed infrastructureto service the composition request; and setting up telemetry servicesfor the composed information handling system using an at least onecontrol resource set.
 11. The non-transitory computer readable medium ofclaim 10, wherein the first predictive analytics specify potentialfuture states of other composed information handling systemsinstantiated using the composed system blueprint.
 12. The non-transitorycomputer readable medium of claim 11, wherein the telemetry dataspecifies current and past states of the other composed informationhandling systems.
 13. The non-transitory computer readable medium ofclaim 10, wherein setting up the telemetry services for the composedinformation handling system comprises: generating a transactionidentifier associated with the composed information handling system;generating hardware resource tags associated with at least one hardwareresource set of the composed information handling system; generatingcompute resource tags associated with the least one compute resource setof the composed information handling system; instantiating datacollectors associated with the composed information handling system;identifying telemetry policies associated with the composed informationhandling system; generating a telemetry data map entry that associatesthe transaction identifier, the hardware resource tags, the computeresource tags, the telemetry policies, and the data collectors; andinitiating performance of telemetry services based on the telemetry datamap entry.
 14. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 13,further comprising: after instantiating the composed informationhandling system using the composed infrastructure to service thecomposition request: identifying, by a system control processor manager,a telemetry collection event; in response to obtaining the telemetrycollection event: identifying a transaction identifier associated withthe composed information handling system; identifying telemetry intentassociated with the telemetry collection event; aggregating telemetrydata based on the telemetry intent and a telemetry data map entryassociated with the transaction identifier to obtain aggregatedtelemetry data; generating second predictive analytics using theaggregated telemetry data; making a second determination that the secondpredictive analytics indicate a composed system blueprint update isrequired; and in response to the second determination: updating thecomposed system blueprint based on the second predictive analytics; andupdating a predictive analytics repository using the second predictiveanalytics.
 15. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 14,wherein the second predictive analytics specify a predicted future stateassociated with the composed information handling system.
 16. Thenon-transitory computer readable medium of claim 14, wherein thetelemetry intent is associated with a portion of the hardware resourcetags.
 17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16,wherein aggregating telemetry data based on the telemetry intentcomprises identifying a portion of the telemetry data associated withthe portion of the hardware resource tags.
 18. The non-transitorycomputer readable medium of claim 17, wherein the aggregated telemetrydata comprises the portion of the telemetry data.
 19. A system formanaging composed information handling systems, comprising: a pluralityof information handling systems, wherein the plurality of informationhandling systems comprise a plurality of system control processors; anda system control processor manager, comprising a processor and memory,programmed to: obtain a composition request for a composed informationhandling system to perform a workflow; in response to obtaining thecomposition request: identify a composed system blueprint associatedwith the workflow; make a first determination that there are firstpredictive analytics associated with the composed system blueprint; inresponse to the first determination: identify a composed infrastructureassociated with the composed system blueprint capable of performing theworkflow based on telemetry data and the first predictive analytics;instantiate a composed information handling system using the composedinfrastructure to service the composition request; and set up telemetryservices for the composed information handling system using an at leastone control resource set.
 20. The system of claim 19, wherein the firstpredictive analytics specify potential future states of other composedinformation handling systems instantiated using the composed systemblueprint.